Robert Evans (physicist)

Robert Evans (born April 7, 1946 ) is a British physicist .

Evans graduated from the University of Birmingham with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1967 and received a PhD from the University of Bristol in 1970. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Bristol in 1973/74 , where he became a lecturer in 1978 , reader in 1984 and professor in 1992. In 2006 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor in Bristol, where he retired in 2011.

He is concerned with the microscopic theory of liquids and, with a paper from 1979, is considered the founder of the classical density functional theory . Evans researched interfacial phenomena of liquids (adsorption, phase transitions, correlation functions), inclusion of liquids on the nano and mesoscale, models of colloidal suspensions, theory of nucleation.

From 2002 to 2005 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize at the MPI for Metals Research in Stuttgart and in 1997 he was a research professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2011 he was Kramers visiting professor at the University of Utrecht.

In 1981 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in 2005 a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2007 he received the Lennard Jones Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2014 he received the Liquid Matter Prize of the European Physical Society. In 2016 he received a Leverhulem Emeritus Fellowship.

Fonts

• The nature of the liquid-vapor interface and other topics in the statistical mechanics of non-uniform, classical fluids . In: Adv. Phys. 28, pp. 143-200 (1979).

Web links

• Short biography, DKFZ
• Homepage, DKFZ
• Literature by and about Robert Evans (physicist) in the WorldCat bibliographic database