David M. Brink

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David Maurice Brink (born July 20, 1930 in Hobart , Australia ) is an Australian-British nuclear physicist.

Brink studied physics from 1947 at the University of Tasmania with a bachelor's degree in 1951. Then he was a Rhodes scholarship holder at Oxford University (Magdalen College), where he received his doctorate in 1955. 1954 to 1958 he was Rutherford Scholar of the Royal Society . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956/57 . From 1958 he was a lecturer and fellow at Balliol College again in Oxford, where he became a reader from 1988and retired in 1993. From 1976 to 1978 he was Vice Master of Balliol College. From 1993 to 1998 he was Vice Director of the ECT (European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas) in Trieste and Professor of the History of Physics in Trieste.

Among other things, he was visiting scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1964), visiting professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Orsay (1969, 1981/82), at the University of British Columbia (1975), at the Universities of Trieste and Catania, at the Technical University of Munich (1982) and at the Missouri State University in East Lansing (1988/89).

In addition to investigations into nuclear forces, nuclear structure and nuclear reactions and the physics of angular momentum in quantum mechanics, he also dealt with the history of nuclear physics.

Since 1981 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1982 he received the Rutherford Medal from the Institute of Physics . He has been an external member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 1992 . In 2006 he received the Lise Meitner Prize for his numerous contributions to the theory of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions over several decades, including fundamental work on the theory of nuclear masses using effective interactions of the Skyrme type, nuclear-giant resonances, clustering in nuclei and quantum mechanical and semiclassical Theories of heavy ion scattering and heavy ion reactions .

Fonts

  • with George Raymond Satchler Angular Momentum , Oxford University Press 1962
  • Nuclear Forces , Pergamon Press 1965, German translation: Kernkraft , WTB Texte, 1971 (reprint volume with introduction by Brink)
  • Semiclassical methods in nucleus-nucleus scattering , Cambridge University Press 1985
  • with Ricardo A. Broglia Nuclear superfluidity: pairing in finite systems , Cambridge University Press 2005
  • Nuclear Dynamics in Brown, Pais, Pippard (Editor) History of 20th century physics , IOP, Volume 2, 1995
  • The alpha particle model of light nuclei , in: Varenna Summer School 1965, Academic Press 1966

Some essays:

  • with E. Boeker Effective interactions for Hartree-Fock calculations , Nuclear Physics A, Volume 91, 1967, p. 1
  • with HJ Rose Angular distribution of gamma-rays in terms of phase-defined reduced matrix elements , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 39, 1967, p. 306
  • with A. Weiguny The generator coordinate theory of collective motion , Nuclear Physics A, Volume 120, 1968, p. 59
  • with Dominique Vautherin , M. Veneroni Hartree-Fock calculations in superheavy nuclei , Physics Letters B, Volume 33, 1970, p. 381
  • with D. Vautherin Hartree-Fock calculations with Skyrme's interaction , Phys. Lett. B, Volume 32, 1970, p. 149 and Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 5, 1972, p. 626
  • with YM Engel, K. Goeke, SJ Krieger, D. Vautherin Time dependent Hartree-Fock theory with Skyrme's interaction , Nuclear Physics A, Volume 249, 1975, p. 215
  • Collective motion in excited nuclei , Nuclear Physics A, Volume 574, 1994, p. 207

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Career data according to his curriculum vitae, retrieved from the website of Ian James Douglas MacGregor, July 2012
  2. ↑ for his many contributions to the theory of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions over several decades, including his seminal work on the theory of nuclear masses using Skyrme effective interactions, nuclear giant resonances, clustering in nuclei and quantum and semi-classical theories of heavy ion scattering and reactions , laudation
personal data
SURNAME Brink, David M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brink, David Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobart