Who was Bell Burnell's successor in the Institute of Physics?
Marshall Stoneham
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Answer
Marshall Stoneham was the successor of Bell Burnell in the Institute of Physics. He is a physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society, who has been Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge since 1981. He is known for his work on Theory of defects in crystals, and his research interests include the physics of solids, liquid crystals, and semiconductor devices.
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