Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley

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Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley , called Neville, (born March 4, 1915 in Cambridge , † March 27, 2017 ) was a British theoretical physicist and applied mathematician. He mainly dealt with the statistical mechanics of lattice gases.

He is the son of the historian Harold Temperley . He studied at Cambridge University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1937 and the Smith Prize in 1939 . He worked on underwater explosions at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Aldermaston . In 1965 he became professor of applied mathematics at Swansea University (inaugural lecture: Mathematics and the Real World), from which he retired in 1982. There he was head of the applied mathematics department.

His preoccupation with statistical mechanics also resulted in a preoccupation with combinatorics and graph theory. Temperley-Lieb algebras, which both introduced in 1971, are named after him and Elliott Lieb .

In 1992 he received the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society .

His granddaughter is the fashion designer Alice Temperley (* 1975).

Fonts

  • Editor with John Shipley Rowlinson , GS Rushbrooke Physics of simple liquids , North Holland 1968
  • with DH Trevena Liquids and their properties: a molecular and macroscopic treatise with applications , Ellis Horwood, Halstead Press 1978
  • Graph theory and applications, Ellis Horwood, Halstead Press 1981
  • Changes of state; a mathematical-physical assessment, London 1956
  • Properties of Matter, London University Tutorial Press 1953, 1961
  • A scientist who believes in God, London 1961
  • with Michael E. Fisher : Dimer problem in statistical mechanics - an exact result, Philos. Magazine, Volume 6, 1961, pp. 1061-1063

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allen G. Debus Who's Who in Science 1968
  2. ↑ Nekrolog (English)
  3. ^ Lieb, Temperley Relations between the 'Percolation' and 'Coloring' Problem and other Graph-Theoretical Problems Associated with Regular Planar Lattices: Some Exact Results for the 'Percolation' Problem , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A Volume 322, 1971 , Pp. 251-280
personal data
SURNAME Temperley, Harold Neville Vazeille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2017