George Raymond Satchler

George Raymond "Ray" Satchler (born June 14, 1926 in London , † March 28, 2010 in Shelton , Washington ) was a British nuclear physicist.

Life

Satchler served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and then studied at Oxford University , where he received his master's degree in 1951 and his doctorate in 1955 at the Clarendon Laboratory . As a postdoc he was at the University of Michigan in 1956/57 and at Imperial Chemical Industries from 1956 to 1959 . He then went to Oak Ridge National Laboratory , where he became a permanent member in 1959 and stayed until his retirement in 1996. From 1994 he was also a professor at the University of Tennessee .

Satchler studied nuclear reactions (specifically direct nuclear reactions) and wrote two textbooks about it. A sentence about the relationship between the multipole distribution of an optical potential and that of the nucleon distribution is named after him (Nuclear Physics Vol. 8, 1958, p. 65)

Honors

In 1961 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1977 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics .

Fonts

Essays

• On the development of the theory of direct nuclear reactions . In: Reviews of Modern Physics , Vol. 50 (1978), p. 1

Books

• Angular momentum . 3rd ed. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993, ISBN 0-19-851759-9 (with David M. Brink ).
• Introduction to nuclear reactions . 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-333-51484-X .
• Direct nuclear reactions . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-19-851269-4 .

Web links

• GR satchler. Biography. In: Physics History Network. AIP(English). 
• James B. Ball, Fred E. Bertrand, Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Joseph B. McGrory: Obituary of George Raymond Satchler . In: Physics Today . 2010, doi : 10.1063 / PT.4.1886 (English, scitation.org ).