George Dixon Rochester (born 4.02.1908) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1958). Born in Wallsend. Graduated from the University of Durham (1930). In 1934–35 he worked at the University of Stockholm and in 1935–37 at the University of California (Berkeley). In 1937–73 he was at the University of Manchester (professor from 1955).
His work was in the field of cosmic-ray physics, elementary particle physics and spectroscopy. In 1940, with L. Jánossy, he discovered penetrating showers, and in 1947, with C. Butler, the first strange particles — the charged and neutral K-mesons and hyperons.
The C. Boys Prize (1956).