Stuart Thomas Butler

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Stuart Thomas Butler (born July 4, 1926 in Naracoorte , Australia ; † May 15, 1982 ) was an Australian theoretical nuclear physicist.

Butler grew up as the son of a school teacher from Wales. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Adelaide (Bachelor 1945, Master 1947) and received his doctorate in 1951 at the University of Birmingham , where he had worked on a scholarship from 1949, under Rudolf Peierls . It was here that his pioneering work on direct nuclear reactions, especially stripping reactions, and their use to determine the angular momentum quantum numbers of discrete nuclear states was created. In the mid-1960s he continued these investigations with new methods. He then went to Cornell University with Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeterbefore returning to Australia in 1953. In 1954 he became a reader at the University of Sydney with Harry Messel. During this time he worked with John M. Blatt and MR Schafroth, among others . In 1959 he became a professor for theoretical physics and plasma physics. 1970 to 1973 he was dean of the faculty. In 1978 he retired .

Stuart Thomas Butler also dealt with energy losses in plasmas, low temperature physics (superconductivity) and absorption of solar energy in the ozone layer.

In 1977 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 1966 he received the Thomas Rankin Lyle Medal. He was a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences. In 1961 he received a D. Sc. From the Australian National University.

From 1977 until his death in 1982 he was director of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment in Lucas Heights.

Fonts

  • On angular distribution of (d, p) and (d, n) nuclear reactions. In: Physical Review. Volume 80, 1950, p. 1095.
  • Direct nuclear reactions. In: Physical Review. Volume 106, 1957, p. 272.
  • with others: A modern introduction to physics , Sydney, Horwitz-Grahame 1960, 1965
    • Volume 1 with John M. Blatt Mechanics of particles ,
    • Volume 2 with sheet Kinetic theory of matter and mechanics of solids
    • Volume 3 Sound and Wave motion
    • Volume 5 with Harry Messel Atomic Physics
    • Volume 6 with Harry Messel Light and Optics
  • with Harry Messel (editor) Focus on the Stars (International Science School for High School Students), Sydney, Shakespeare Head Press 1973
  • with Harry Messel (editor) Man in inner and outer space (International Science School for High School Students), Sydney, Shakespeare Head Press 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Butler: Buckingham Physical Review. Volume 126, 1962, p. 1
  2. ^ Volume 4 Electricity and Magnetism was by MM Winn
personal data
SURNAME Butler, Stuart Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Naracoorte
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1982