Francis Farley

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Francis James Macdonald Farley (born 1920 or 1921 in India ; † July 16, 2018 in southern France ) was a British physicist . He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1972) and received its Hughes Medal in 1980 , primarily for his involvement in the precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment ( g-factor ) of the muon at CERN in the 1960s.

Life

Farley was born in India to an army engineer and went to school in England. During the Second World War he was involved in the development of radar (including a form of Doppler radar and for the fire control of the coastal artillery in Dover). In the 1950s he was a professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He conducted research at the nuclear research center in Chalk River , measured the neutron yield from plutonium fission at the Harwell nuclear research center in 1955, and in the same year was New Zealand's representative at the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy in Geneva.

From 1957 he was involved at CERN with experiments to precisely measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, a precision test for quantum electrodynamics . Also involved were u. a. Georges Charpak , Richard Garwin , Antonino Zichichi , Emilio Picasso . He was also involved in the follow-up experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory .

From 1967 to 1982 he was a professor at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham . Then he moved to the south of France. Farley is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He has been visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Reading, the University of New South Wales and the University of Southampton (from where he worked on the Anaconda Project).

From 1976 he dealt with energy generation from ocean waves, where he holds 14 patents and was involved in the anaconda project - and with Rod Rainey is also the original inventor. From 1986 he installed a 65 MeV cyclotron for the proton therapy of cancer at the Hopital Antoine Lacassagne in Nice .

In 2012 he published a novel about physicists at CERN ( Catalyzed Fusion ).

He died on July 16, 2018 at the age of 97 in the south of France.

Fonts

  • Elements of pulse circuits , Methuen 1955
  • with Emilio Picasso: The Muon g-2 Experiment. In: T. Kinoshita (Ed.): Quantum Electrodynamics. World Scientific, 1990, pp. 479-559.
  • with Emilio Picasso: The Muon g-2 Experiments. In: Annual Review Nuclear and Particle Science. Volume 29, 1979, pp. 243-282.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary in Cerncourier , accessed on November 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Michael Pollitt, New wave power generation, The Guardian, Aug. 7, 2008
  3. ↑ Review by Nick Collins, Telegraph, June 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Farley, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farley, Francis James Macdonald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1920 or 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH India
DATE OF DEATH 16th July 2018
Place of death South France