William G. Penney

1967-1991

Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom

(1909 - 1991)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penney,_Baron_Penney
http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=18558
In 1944-45 he worked on the USA atomic bomb project at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico.
Returning to England he worked on the British atomic bomb project, saw the project through to the test of the first bomb in 1952.

John Lennard-Jones	grad student	1936	Cambridge (Physics Tree)
(The Theory Of Simple Hydrocarbons)
John H. van Vleck	post-doc	1932	UW Madison (Physics Tree)

research assistant

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Penney WG. (1937) The electronic structure of some polyenes and aromatic molecules III—Bonds of fractional order by the pair method Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 158: 306-324
Sutherland GBBM, Penney WG. (1936) On the Assignment of the Fundamental Vibration Frequencies in O 3 , F 2 O, Cl 2 O, NO, and N 3 {} 1 Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 156: 678-686
Penney WG, Sutherland GBBM. (1936) On the relation between the form, force constants, and vibration frequencies of triatomic systems Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 156: 654-678
Penney WG. (1934) The Theory of the Stability of the Benzene Ring and Related Compounds Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 146: 223-238
Penney WG. (1934) The theory of the structure of ethylene and a note on the structure of ethane Proceedings of the Royal Society a: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 144: 166-187