David Sherrington

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Sherrington (born October 29, 1941 in Blackpool , Lancashire ) is a British theoretical physicist who deals with solid-state physics.

After completing his doctorate at the University of Manchester in 1966, Sherrington was a post-doc at the University of California, San Diego with Walter Kohn from 1967 to 1969 , and he worked at Imperial College from 1967 to 1989 , first as a lecturer and Reader, then as a professor. Sherrington has been Wykeham Professor at the Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics in Oxford since 1989 and an external member of the Santa Fe Institute . At times he was head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Oxford. He was visiting scholar at IBM , Schlumberger-Doll, Los Alamos National Laboratory , the Institute for Advanced Study and the Institut Laue-Langevin.

During his time at Kohn, he worked on excitonic isolators, Bose condensation in Fermi systems and zero-gap semiconductors. Later he dealt with statistical mechanics of complex, disordered and frustrated systems.

Sherrington is particularly known for his work on spin glasses . Here the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model is named after him and Scott Kirkpatrick.

In 2007 he received the Dirac Medal (IOP) and in 2010 the Blaise Pascal Medal . In 2012 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . In 1994 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , 1974 a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and 1985 a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2001 he gave the Bakerian Lecture .

He should not be confused with the polymer chemist David C. Sherrington (1945–2014).

Fonts

  • A mean Martini, in Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (Ed.): Walter Kohn- Personal stories and anecdotes told by friends and collaborators, Springer 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kohn, Sherrington Two Kinds of Bosons and Bose Condensates , Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 42, 1970, pp. 1-11
  2. ↑ Sherrington, Kirkpatrick Solvable model of a spin glass , Physical Review Letters, Vol. 35, 1975, p. 1792
  3. ^ Membership directory: David Sherrington. Academia Europaea, accessed January 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sherrington, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackpool