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P. R. Wallace
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<p>P. R. (Philip Russell; "Phil") Wallace (April 19, 1915 – March 20, 2006) was a <a href="/facts/Canadian/9y5ceYgk">Canadian</a> <a href="/facts/Theoretical_physicist/Cs2Y12rQ">theoretical physicist</a> and long-time professor at <a href="/facts/McGill_University/amouytVp">McGill University</a>. He was a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Canada/betD1djj">Royal Society of Canada</a> and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India). He had a distinguished career as educator, researcher, and activist in science and society, but he is increasingly well known for his pioneering paper in 1947 on the band structure of <a href="/facts/Graphite/sSf3KMXr">graphite</a>, and particularly <a href="/facts/Graphene/QDGUBaPt">graphene</a>, the subject of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. </p>