George Pickett (physicist)

George Richard Pickett FRS (10 April 1939 – 21 July 2024) was a British physicist who was Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University.

He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1962; DPhil).

[1] In the 1996 Nobel Prize citation of physicist David Lee, credit was given to Pickett and his research group for their work on 3He.

[3] In 1988, Pickett was elected a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

[4] In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] and in 2006 a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.