Alan Robert Edmonds

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Alan Robert Edmonds (born May 23, 1922 ) is a British physicist.

Edmonds studied at the University of Birmingham with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1953. In the mid-1950s, he was in the theory department of CERN , which was then based at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. From 1960 to 1964 he was Senior Research Physicist at Imperial College London , where he was Deputy Director of the Computing Center at London University and then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. He belonged to the theory group until the mid-1980s.

He is known for a standard work on angular momentum in quantum mechanics. The book was published in 1957 and arose from lectures in Birmingham, Manchester, Paris, Uppsala and Copenhagen.

Fonts

  • AR Edmonds: Angular momentum in quantum mechanics , Princeton UP, 1957
    • German translation: Angular momentum in quantum mechanics , BI university pocket books 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth John Grant, Who's who in British Science, 1971
  2. ^ Foreword to his book on angular momentum in quantum mechanics from 1957
  3. ^ History, Theoretical Physics Group , Imperial College
personal data
SURNAME Edmonds, Alan Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1922