George Stanley Rushbrooke

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George Stanley Rushbrooke , called Stanley, (born January 19, 1915 , † December 14, 1995 ) was a British physicist who studied the statistical mechanics of liquids.

Life

Rushbrooke studied at Cambridge University with Ralph H. Fowler and was then at the Universities of Bristol, Dundee, Leeds and Oxford before becoming Professor of Theoretical Physics at Newcastle University in 1951 , where he retired in 1980.

He was a pioneer in the development of the microscopic theory of liquids and recognized the limits of the model of slightly disturbed regular lattice arrangements, which was popular at the time, early on. At the beginning of the 1950s he revived the method of the correlation function (which also happened at the same time in the USA, the Netherlands and Japan), partly with his student HI Scoins. Around 1960, like JMJ van Leeuwen and Tohru Morita and others at the same time, he introduced the hyper-netted chain (HNC) approximation. Later he also dealt with the physics of magnetic phase transitions and found a relation between the critical exponents in the Ising model .

He was from 1954 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , and in 1982 a Fellow of the Royal Society . From 1962 to 1966 he was editor of Molecular Physics .

His twin brother was a mathematician. He was married but had no children. His hobby was ornithology.

Fonts

  • Introduction to Statistical Mechanics, Clarendon Press 1949
  • Editor with HNV Temperley, JS Rowlinson: Physics of simple liquids, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1968.
  • with Scoins: On the theory of fluids, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 216, 1953, 203

literature

  • Obituary in Molecular Physics, 87, 1996, 1243

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Ornstein-Zernike theory developed around 1914 by Leonard Ornstein , Frits Zernike in the Netherlands.
  2. ↑ Among others, John G. Kirkwood , Ryogo Kubo , Melville S. Green , Robert Zwanzig , Hajime Mori .
  3. ↑ GS Rushbrooke, On the hyper-chain approximation in the theory of classical fluids, Physica 26, 1960, pp. 259-265
  4. ↑ Rushbrooke, On the thermodynamics of the critical region for the Ising model, J. Chem. Phys., 39, 1963, 842-843
personal data
SURNAME Rushbrooke, George Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rushbrooke, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1915
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1995