Bernard Serin
Bernard Serin (born May 26, 1922 in New York City , † June 18, 1974 in Cheadle Hulme , England) was an American physicist.
Serin received his PhD from Leonard Schiff at the University of Pennsylvania and spent a year as a post-doctoral student at New York University . In 1947 he came to Rutgers University , where he became a professor. In 1973 he moved to the University of Manchester in England.
Serine experimented with superconductivity and discovered the isotope effect in superconductors in 1950. This demonstrated the role of the electron-phonon interaction in superconductivity and was thus an essential basis for the development of a correct theory of superconductivity by Herbert Fröhlich and John Bardeen and then by Bardeen, Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer ( BCS theory ) . His experiments continued to play an important role in the development of the theory of type 2 superconductors.
He also dealt with the transport properties of normal metals and noble gas crystals.
A physics building at Rutgers University is named after him.
Fonts
- Superconductivity - experimental part, in Siegfried Flügge Handbuch der Physik , Volume 15, 1956
literature
- Elihu Abrahams, Peter Lindenfeld, obituary in Physics Today, December 1974
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serin, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1974 |
| Place of death | Cheadle Hulme , England |