Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO (b. 1870- d. 1952) was a British soldier and colonial official. After a career in the British Army he became a colonial administrator serving as governor of Mauritius (1911–1916), Trinidad and Tobago (1916–1921) and Southern Rhodesia (1923–1928). He was knighted in 1913. In 1928, he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine where he was perceived as being cool to Zionism. While he was in London in 1929, Arab riots protesting Jewish immigration broke out. On his return, he initially condemned Arab attacks but was subsequently less critical. He helped write the Lord Passfield's White Paper of 1930 which aimed to reinterpret the Balfour Declaration in order to back away from a commitment to the creation of a Jewish state. He left Palestine in 1931. On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... Queen Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated immediately to the north of South Africa, known today as Zimbabwe. ... High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment. ... Flag The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. ... Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood is thought to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and late Second Temple times,[1][2] and where Jewish kingdoms existed up to the 2nd century CE. Zionism is... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A white paper is an authoritative report. ... Arthur James Balfour. ...
JohnRobert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity.
In 1972, Schrieffer along with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory.
In 1980, Schrieffer became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and rose to chancellor professor in 1984, serving as director of the university’s Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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