283:, where he worked until his retirement in August 1973. He started as a scientist, but by 1959 had become Director of Nuclear Research, a position that he held until his retirement. During his time at AWRE he was the UK representative at the Nuclear Weapon Test Verification talks in Geneva. At the end of January 1956 Henry Hulme wrote a paper spelling out his ideas on Green Granite, a three-stage nuclear bomb. He wrote: "We are confident...that the bomb is a three-stage one in which the first bomb is imploded by ordinary explosive and the second by energy from the first bomb. The thermonuclear material which constitutes the third stage is ignited by energy and neutrons from the second bomb. We shall refer to the three components as Tom, Dick and Harry..." He was present at many of the
225:, where he was a member of Blackett's Circle, which looked at the problem of how to stop mines sticking to the hulls of ships when they were magnetised. By the end of the war he had risen to the position of Director Operational Research at the Admiralty. It was at the end the war that he resigned his position at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and began working as a Scientific Advisor to the British Air Ministry. During this period he also visited the United States to see the Manhattan Project and the construction of the US nuclear bomb. Even though he had been loaned out on war work he tried to keep contact with the Royal Observatory and in 1942, Hulme became the secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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276:, docked in Adelaide. "The world must just consider me an unnatural father," Hulme was reported as saying, and gave a statement to the press denouncing his daughter and that his priority at that time was his son Jonathan. This was the only statement that he ever made regarding what happened. When Hulme and his son made landfall in Marseilles they disembarked and disappeared from public view. His divorce to his first wife was final by 10 March 1955 and soon after he married Margery Alice Ducker.
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Electromagnetic Field due to Variable Electric Charges and the Intensities of Spectrum Lines according to the Quantum Theory"; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character; Vol 150; Issue 870; Pages
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Internal Conversion of γ-Rays with the Production of Electrons and Positrons"; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character; Vol 148; Issue 865; Pages
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Annihilation of Fast Positions by Electrons in the K-Shell"; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character; Vol 146; Issue 859; Pages
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