Tony Lane
Anthony Milner "Tony" Lane (born July 27, 1928 in Trowbridge ; † February 9, 2011 ) was a British theoretical nuclear physicist .
Lane studied on a scholarship at Cambridge University with degrees in mathematics in 1949 and physics in 1950. He received his doctorate with Rudolf Peierls in Birmingham and then went in 1953 to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in the theory department. He stayed there until his retirement in 1989 and was Deputy Chief Scientific Officer there from 1976 to 1989. After his retirement he continued to work scientifically at the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford.
He has been visiting scholar and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , the University of Colorado in Boulder, the University of Texas in Houston and the University of Tallahassee, at the Tata Institute in Mumbai , at the Weizmann Institute , the University of Witwatersrand and the Australian National University in Canberra.
He is particularly known for research into nuclear reactions. With his colleague Eric Lynn in Harwell, he investigated photonuclear reactions that play a role in nuclear reactors (capture of a neutron with the release of gamma radiation).
In the 1980s he also dealt with isotope enrichment with lasers and muon-catalyzed fusion .
In 1975 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .
Lane was married twice. In his first marriage (married in 1952 in Israel, his wife Nani died in 1980) he had two sons and a daughter, in his second marriage five stepdaughters. His hobbies included bird watching and hiking in the Lake District .
Fonts
- with RG Thomas R-Matrix theory of nuclear reactions , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 30, 1958, pp. 257-353
- Nuclear theory. Pairing force correlations and collective motion , Benjamin 1964 (Reprint Band)
- with Eugene Wigner , Thomas Giant resonance interpretation of the nucleon nucleus interaction , Physical Review, Volume 98, 1955, p. 693 (Lane-Thomas-Wigner model)
- New term in the nuclear optical potential: implications of (p, n) mirror state reactions , Physical Review Letters, Volume 8, 1962, pp. 171-172
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| SURNAME | Lane, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lane, Anthony Milner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trowbridge |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2011 |