B. Lidiard, was a British condensed matter physicist known for his research into defects in materials.
[1][2] Lidiard studied theoretical physics under Charles Coulson at King's College London, obtaining an MSc in 1950 and a PhD in 1952.
[3] He spent two years as a Fulbright scholar in the USA, first as a research assistant for Friedrich Seitz at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and then under Charles Kittel at University of California, Berkeley.
Between 1957 and 1961, he was a Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at University of Reading.
He returned to Harwell and set up the radiation damage theory group in the Theoretical Physics Division (TPD).