Catalogue description Patrick Maynard Stuart BLACKETT: British. Nobel Prize winner in Physics and member of...

Patrick Maynard Stuart BLACKETT: British. Nobel Prize winner in Physics and member of Government scientific committees, Professor BLACKETT was assessed as having an intellectual rather than a political interest in Communism. Although not a member, in 1944 he was close to the Communist Party but later moved away and by 1952 the Security Service considered that any security risk attaching to him was not because his personal integrity was in doubt, but because of the possibility of inadvertent leakage to some of his associates