Ian Towner
Ian Stuart Towner (born May 24, 1940 in Hastings ) is a British nuclear physicist .
Towner graduated from Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and received his doctorate from Battersea College, University of London in 1966. From 1965 to 1970 he was in the nuclear physics laboratory at Oxford University with Peter Hodgson . In 1970 he went to the theory department at the Chalk River Nuclear Labs (Atomic Energy Canada's AECL) in Ontario, Canada. In 1997 he left the laboratory and became an adjunct professor at Queen's University (Kingston) .
In 1988/89 he was at TRIUMF .
In 2006 he and John Hardy received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for precision tests of the electroweak interaction ( unitarity of the CKM matrix ) in super permitted beta decays . These are beta decays of angular momentum and parity quantum numbers according to which a gamma ray transition is prohibited.
He also dealt with shell model calculations for the core structure, meson exchange currents, axial vector coupling in beta decays, nuclear moments, transfer reactions.
He has been married since 1966 and has two children.
Fonts
- Shell model description of light nuclei , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977
- with Boris Castel Modern theories of nuclear moments , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990
- as editor Nuclei far from stability: Fifth International Conference, Rosseau Lake, Ontario, Canada 1987 , American Institute of Physics, New York 1988
Web links
- Laudation for the Bonn Prize
- Literature by and about Ian Towner in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Towner, Ian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Towner, Ian Stuart (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hastings |