Russell J. Donnelly
Russell James Donnelly (born April 16, 1930 in Hamilton , Ontario ; † June 13, 2015 in Eugene , Oregon ) was a Canadian-American physicist who studied solid-state physics (quantum liquids, superfluidity , low-temperature physics), turbulence, and hydrodynamic stability .
Life
Donnelly studied at McMaster University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952 with a thesis on experimental nuclear physics with Martin W. Johns. He then went to Yale University , where he was in the low temperature physics group of CT Lane (* 1904) and where Henry A. Fairbank and Lars Onsager were his teachers. In 1956 he received his doctorate from Lane and Onsager (On the hydrodynamics of superfluid Helium). Among other things, this resulted in a publication with Oliver Penrose in which they showed that the vibrations of liquid helium in a U-tube at low temperature can be described by Landau's two-phase liquid theory. He also worked on it with Archie Hollis Hallett (who had carried out similar experiments at Cambridge) and studied the kinematic viscosity of Helium II at the suggestion of Onsager. In 1956 he became an instructor and later professor at the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago . From 1966 he was a professor at the University of Oregon .
In 1972 he was at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He was also visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Birmingham . He was a consultant at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
Memberships & honors
In 2002 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize and in 1975 the Otto Laporte Prize . In 1996 he received the Lars Onsager Medal from the University of Trondheim.
In 1999 he received an honorary doctorate (LLD) from McMaster University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Physical Society (APS), and the Institute of Physics . From 1959 to 1963 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . 1971/72 and 1982/83 he was President of the APS.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donnelly, Russell J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Donnelly, Russell James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 2015 |
| Place of death | Eugene , Oregon |