George Edward Bacon MA ScD (Cantab.)
PhD (London) FInstP (born Derby, England, 5 December 1917 – 18 March 2011) was a British nuclear physicist, specializing in neutron diffraction.
[1] Bacon built the first neutron diffractometer in the UK at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, and then made the first experiments outside the United States in neutron diffraction, a means of studying the basic structures and dynamics of materials.
He wrote scientific papers, textbooks and review articles on the use of neutron scattering.
His book Neutron Diffraction was a standard text, beginning with the first edition in 1955.