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Born in Blackburn , England in 1927, Fawcett's passion for study and hard work helped him escape the hand-to-mouth existence of Depression -era Lancashire by winning a full scholarship to study physics at University Of Cambridge . After graduation, he crossed the Atlantic with his new bride Patricia Fawcett to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Research Council in Ottawa in 1954 . Two years later Fawcett returned to England, where Fawcett worked at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern . In 1961 he moved to the United States, where Fawcett worked as a research physicist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey . In 1970 , he accepted a Professorship in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto, where he remained until his retirement in 1993 . |
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