Michael Gillan
Michael Gillan , called Mike Gillan, is a British theoretical solid-state physicist.
Gillan studied at Oxford University with a master’s degree in 1965 and a doctorate in 1968 with the mathematician William Parry (1934-2006). He was a post-graduate student at the University of Minnesota with Woods Halley . 1970 to 1988 he was in the theoretical department of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell. From 1988 he was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Keele and from 1998 at University College London . He is now Professor Emeritus there .
He is known for numerical simulations of solids and liquids on an atomic scale. He uses various methods such as density functional theory , quantum Monte Carlo simulation , molecular dynamics or various methods of quantum chemistry .
Among other things, he studied matter under extreme conditions (for example in the deep interior of the earth), absorption, desorption and chemical reactions on surfaces and nanostructures on semiconductor surfaces.
In 2006 he received the Dirac Medal from the Institute of Physics.
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| SURNAME | Gillan, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gillan, Mike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |