Roger Blin-Stoyle

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Roger John Blin-Stoyle (born December 24, 1924 in Leicester , † January 31, 2007 ) was a British theoretical nuclear physicist .

Life

Blin-Stoyle studied at the University of Oxford , interrupted his service from 1943 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the communications department. He was a student of Maurice Pryce and received his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from Oxford in 1951 with John Spears ( Theory of Beta-Decay , Polarized nuclear reactions ). He then worked with the experimental physicist Hans von Halban in Oxford. In 1953 he was with Rudolf Peierls (his doctoral examiner) at the University of Birmingham . Then he was back in Oxford, where he also worked with John Stewart Bell at the nearby AEREworked together (via meson exchange during beta decay) and met Victor Weisskopf in Oxford . In 1956 he became a tutorial fellow at Wadham College , Oxford. With the professor of nuclear physics Denys Wilkinson he investigated the effects of parity violation in the nucleon interaction in the nucleus. After he got to know the more modern teaching of physics compared to Oxford during his guest stay at MIT, he wanted to implement this also in England and went to the newly founded University of Sussex in Brighton , where he was founding dean of the School of Mathematical and Physical Science in 1962 , which he stayed until 1968. He was the University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and Acting Vice-Chancellor.

In 1959/60 he was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (at the invitation of Weisskopf, he worked there with Herman Feshbach ) and in 1960 at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla .

plant

Blin-Stoyle dealt primarily with the calculation of nuclear moments (Schmidt lines and deviations from them), weak interactions in nuclei and the connection between particle physics and nuclear physics, for example in the search for the effects of meson exchange or parity violation (and violation of time reversal invariance) the weak interaction in nuclei or to measure a possible charge dependence of the nuclear forces. He worked closely with experimental physicists.

Honors, memberships, editing

In 1976 he received the Rutherford Medal and in 1987 he became an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College. In 1990 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex (D. Sc.). From 1990 to 1992 he was President of the Institute of Physics and from 1993 to 1994 of the Association of Science Education. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1976) and on its council. From 1983 to 1987 he was also chairman of the national committee that examined school curriculum in science (School Curriculum Development Committee).

From 1977 to 1982 he was editor of the Reports on Progress in Physics .

Private

Blin-Stoyle had been married to Audrey Elizabeth Balmford since 1949 and had a son and a daughter. He played the piano and organ (where he took lessons from St. Paul's Cathedral organist John Dykes Bower) and was Associate of the Royal College of Music in 1948 .

Fonts

  • with Michael Grace Oriented nuclei , Handbuch der Physik, Volume 48, 1957, pp. 555-610
  • Theories of nuclear moments , Oxford University Press 1957
  • Fundamental interactions and the nucleus , North Holland 1973
  • Nuclear and particle physics , Chapman and Hall 1991
  • Theories of Nuclear Moments , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 28, 1956, pp. 75-101
  • Isospin in nuclear beta decay , in Wilkinson (Ed.) Isospin in nuclear physics , North Holland 1969, pp. 115-172
  • with SCK Nair The fundamentals of beta decay theory , Advances in Physics, Volume 15, 1966, pp. 493-545
  • The nucleus as a laboratory , Contemporary Physics, Volume 20, 1979, pp. 377-399
  • Mesons in nucleus introduction , in Mannque Rho , Denys Wilkinson (editor) Mesons in nuclei , North Holland 1979

From 1957 he also edited new editions of Max Born's Atomic Physics , first published in 1935.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bell, Blin-Stoyle Mesonic effects in beta decay , Nuclear Physics, Volume 6, 1958, pp. 87-99
  2. ↑ parity non conserving internucleon potentials , Phys. Review, Volume 118, 1960, pp. 1605-1606
  3. ↑ Blin-Stoyle, Bezerra Coutinho A theoretical study of T-violation in 192 Pt , Nuclear Physics A, Volume 211, 1973, pp. 157-164
  4. ↑ Blin-Stoyle, Yalcin Charge dependence of the internucleon potential , Physics Letters, Volume 15, 1965, pp. 258-260
personal data
SURNAME Blin-Stoyle, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blin-Stoyle, Roger John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2007