David J. Rowe

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David John Rowe (born February 4, 1936 in Totnes , England - † May 8, 2020 ) was a Canadian theoretical nuclear physicist .

Career

Rowe studied at Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in 1959, Oxford University with another bachelor's degree in the same year and a master's degree and doctorate in theoretical nuclear physics in 1962. As a post-doctoral student , he was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen . From 1963 to 1966 he did research at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell and then until 1968 at the University of Rochester . He then went to the University of Toronto , where he was Associate Professor in 1968 and Professor from 1974. From 1984 to 1987 he was Associate Dean for Physical Sciences. Since 1989 he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto. In 1998 he retired.

He dealt theoretically with collective models of nuclei using the methods of group theory, as well as with coherent states and quantization methods in general. He also applied these methods to other many-body problems.

In 1971/72 he was visiting professor in São Paulo and in 1984 at the University of Canterbury .

From 1999 to 2002 he was chairman of the IUPAP Mathematical Physics Commission .

In 1999 he received the CAP-CRM Prize . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1986), whose Rutherford Memorial Prize he received in 1983. He was a Killam Fellow from 1990 to 1992 and a Sloan Research Fellow from 1970 to 1972 .

Fonts

  • Nuclear collective motion: models and theory , World Scientific 2010
  • Nuclear collective motion: models and theory , London, Methuen 1970
  • with John L. Wood Fundamentals of nuclear models: foundational models , World Scientific 2010
  • as editor Dynamic structure of nuclear states (Proceedings of 1971 Mont Tremblant International Summer School), University of Toronto Press 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Rowe, distinguished UofT theoretical physicist, CAP and Rutherford medal winner, passed away May 8, 2020. University of Toronto, May 21, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rowe, David J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowe, David John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Totnes
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2020