Donald Robson
Donald Robson (born March 19, 1937 in Leeds ) is a British-Australian theoretical nuclear physicist.
Robson studied physics at the University of Melbourne with a bachelor's degree in 1959, a master's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in 1963. As a post-doctoral student he was at Florida State University , where he was an assistant professor in 1964, an associate professor in 1965 and a professor in 1967 .
He was visiting professor and visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University , the University of Frankfurt, in Oxford, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Munich.
He dealt with nuclear reactions and nuclear scattering, heavy ion reactions, alpha particle models of nuclei, isospin in nuclei (isobar analog states), quark structure of hadrons.
In 1972 he and John D. Anderson received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 1966/67 he was a Sloan Research Fellow , received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1976/77 and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972 .
From 1972 to 1995 he was co-editor of Nuclear Physics A.
He is a British and Australian citizen. Robson is married with three children.
Web links
- Florida State University ( September 11, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive )
- Biography at the APS
- Literature by and about Donald Robson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robson, Donald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds |