John Glen (physicist)

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John Glen (born November 6, 1927 in London ) is a British physicist who made significant contributions to the description of the dynamics of glaciers . His experimental work on the deformation of ice in the 1950s led to the formulation of a general law of flow for ice, Glen's law of flow, named after him .

Life

Glen was born in London in 1927 and studied engineering and then physics at Clare College , Cambridge . During his doctoral thesis he worked on the physical properties of ice and carried out laboratory experiments on ice deformation. After completing his doctorate at Cambridge University, after a short stay at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, he worked as a lecturer and later as a reader at the University of Birmingham . His greatest scientific contribution was conducting flow experiments with ice blocks in the laboratory at different temperatures and applied stresses , through which he found a relationship between deformation and stress known as Glensches law of flow .

He organized a series of symposiums entitled The Physics and Chemistry of Ice , was chief editor at the Journal of Glaciology from 1961–1984 and was a member of the editorial board until after his retirement . In 1972 he received the Seligman Crystal and in 2013 the Richardson medal from the International Glaciological Society . He is also one of only six honorary members of this society.

Publications (selection)

  • Glen, JW, 1952. Experiments on the deformation of ice. Journal of Glaciology, 2 (12), 111-114.
  • Glen, JW, 1955. The creep of polycrystalline ice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. A. 228, pp. 519-538.
  • Glen, JW, 1958. The flow law of ice. A discussion of the assumptions made in glacier theory, their experimental foundations and consequences. International Association of Hydrological Sciences 47, pp. 171-183.
  • Glen, JW, 1975. The mechanics of ice. In: Johnson, TC (Ed.), Cold Regions Science and Engineering, Part II-C2b. CRREL, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oral history of British science: John Glen interviewed by Paul Merchant , July 29, 2010. Website transcription (pdf, 227 pages, 1.2 MB) , here Track 1.
  2. ^ Jiskoot, H. (2011): "Dynamics of Glacier." In: Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, p. 415-428.
  3. ↑ Richardson medal awardee 2013. International Glaciological Society, accessed on November 7, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Glen, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH London