Roger Cowley

Roger A. Cowley (born February 24, 1939 , † January 27, 2015 ) was a British physicist who worked on experimental solid-state physics.

He studied at Cambridge University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1963. He was then a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and from 1964 Research Officer at "Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.". From 1970 he was Professor at the University of Edinburgh and from 1988 Professor of Experimental Physics at Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College . For eight years he was also chairman of the physics faculty in Oxford. Since 2008 he was professor emeritus there.

Cowley studied solid and condensed matter with X-ray diffraction and neutron scattering, for example the phonon dispersion curves in ion crystals, structural phase transitions in crystals, spin wave excitations and excitations in liquid helium 3 and 4. He also investigated various magnetic systems, the Heisenberg and Ising models in correspond to different dimensions, and tested the theoretical predictions about the nature of their phase transitions.

Cowley was the first recipient of the Max Born Prize in 1973 .

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Cowley was married with two children.

Fonts

with AD Bruce: Structural Phase transitions. Taylor and Francis London 1981, ISBN 0-85066-206-0 (In Russian: А. Брус, Р. Каули: Структурные фазовые переходы. Мир, Москва 1984).
with ADB Woods: Structures and excitations in liquid Helium. In: Reports on Progress in Physics. Vol. 36, No. 9, 1973, ISSN 0034-4885 , pp. 1135-1231, doi : 10.1088 / 0034-4885 / 36/9/002 .
with William Cochran: Phonons in perfect crystals, in Siegfried Flügge , Handbuch der Physik , Volume 25–2a, 1967

Web links

Andrew Boothroyd: Professor Roger Cowley, FRS (1939-2015) . In: Neutron News . tape 26 , no. 3 , p. 31-32 , doi : 10.1080 / 10448632.2015.1057062 .
Curriculum Vitae Roger A. Cowley. Clarendon Lab, University of Oxford, January 30, 1999, archived from the original on March 8, 2001 .; Retrieved January 1, 1970

Individual evidence

^ Roger Cowley 1939-2015. In: Alumni News, Wadham College, University of Oxford. January 28, 2015, accessed November 12, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cowley, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cowley, Roger A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1939
DATE OF DEATH	January 27, 2015

[1] Roger Cowley 1939-2015. In: Alumni News, Wadham College, University of Oxford. January 28, 2015, accessed November 12, 2018 .