Denys Wilkinson

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Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson (born September 5, 1922 in Leeds , † April 22, 2016 ) was a British nuclear physicist.

life and work

Wilkinson studied at Cambridge , where he was a Fellow of Jesus College from 1944 to 1959 (and an honorary fellow from 1961). In 1943 he obtained his bachelor's degree there and his master's degree in 1947. In the same year he also received his doctorate there. In between he worked on British and Canadian nuclear energy projects. In 1947 he was a demonstrator, 1951 lecturer and 1956 reader in nuclear physics at Cambridge. In 1957 he became professor for nuclear physics (from 1959 for experimental physics) in Oxford, where he headed the department for nuclear physics from 1962 to 1976. In 1976 he left Oxford. From 1976 to 1983 he was director of the International School for Nuclear Physics in Erice . From 1976 he was a professor at the University of Sussex , where he was Vice Chancellor from 1976 until his retirement in 1987.

In 2001 the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics at Oxford University , which he co-founded in 1957, was named after him.

Wilkinson had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1956 , receiving the Hughes Medal in 1965 and the Royal Medal in 1980. In 1968 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1974 he was ennobled. In 1961 he became D.Sc. in Cambridge. From 1985 to 1993 he was Vice President of IUPAP and from 1980 to 1982 he was President of the Institute of Physics. He was a member of numerous committees and bodies at national level, but also, for example, at CERN . In addition to experimental nuclear physics, he also dealt with the navigation of birds.

From 1978 to 1984 he was editor of Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

He was married twice and had three daughters in his first marriage.

Awards

Fonts

  • Ionization chambers and counters, Cambridge University Press 1950
  • as editor: Isospin in nuclear physics, North Holland 1969
  • as editor with Mannque Rho: Mesons in Nuclei, North Holland, 3 volumes, from 1979
  • Our Universes, Columbia University Press 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Wilkinson, Denys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilkinson, Denys Haigh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nuclear physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2016