Bernard Vincent Rollin

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Bernard Vincent Rollin ( 1911 - 1969 ) was a British physicist.

Life

As a student (Bachelor 1933) in 1938 at the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford with Franz Eugen Simon , Rollin discovered the Rollin effect of thin films of liquid helium, named after him (see superfluidity ). He became a lecturer at Oxford in 1945 and a fellow at Wolfson College in 1967 .

Rollin introduced NMR techniques at the Clarendon Laboratory very early in 1946, immediately after their discovery in the USA . This made him the pioneer of NMR in Great Britain. Rollin built his own NMR spectrometer and published it in Nature in 1946 . His contributions later had problems gaining recognition in wider circles, as he was eccentric and never left Oxford, not even for meetings.

literature

  • Obituary in The Times , June 27, 1969.
  • Obituary in Nature , Volume 224, 1969, pp. 828-829: Dr. BV Rollin .
  • Jack Morrell: Science at Oxford 1914-1939 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Oxford: Physics at the University of Oxford
  2. ^ Memoirs of Rex Richards, pdf . Richards was a pioneer of NMR chemistry in Great Britain and received assistance from Rollin in setting up an NMR spectrometer.
  3. ^ Bernard Vincent Rollin: Nuclear magnetic resonance and spin lattice equilibrium . In: Nature, Vol. 158, 1946, pp. 669-670.
  4. ↑ Tansey, Christie, Reynolds (Eds.): Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine , pdf , Volume 2, 1998.

Web links

  • Patents by Bernard Vincent Rollin (partly together with John Gilbert Daunt and Charles Seymour Wright)
personal data
SURNAME Rollin, Bernard Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
DATE OF DEATH 1969