Английская Википедия:Denys Wilkinson
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Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS (5 September 1922 – 22 April 2016) was a British nuclear physicist.
Life
He was born on 5 September 1922 in Leeds, Yorkshire and educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1943.[1]
After wartime work on the British and Canadian Atomic Energy projects, he returned to Cambridge in 1946, where he was awarded a PhD in 1947 and held posts culminating as Reader in Nuclear Physics from 1956Шаблон:Ndash1957.[1] From 1944 to 1959, he was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.[1]
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.[2]
In 1957 he went to the University of Oxford as Professor of Nuclear Physics, and won the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize the same year.[1] In 1959 he became Professor of Experimental Physics at Oxford, and from 1962 to 1976 was head of the Department of Nuclear Physics.[1] While he held his professorship at Oxford, he was a Fellow (there called a Student) of Christ Church, Oxford.[1] He was knighted in 1974.[3] In 2001 the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Oxford, which he had helped to create, was renamed the Denys Wilkinson Building in his honour.[4]
Denys Wilkinson served as chairman for both the Physics III Committee[5] and the Electronic Experiments Committee at CERN.[6]
On leaving Oxford, he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex from 1976 to 1987.[1][7] After his retirement, he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Physics at Sussex in 1987.[1]
Denys Wilkinson's work in nuclear physics included investigation of the properties of nuclei with low numbers of nucleons.[2] He was amongst the first to experimentally test rules relating to isospin.[2] He also applied concepts from physics to the study of bird navigation.[2]
He is also notable for the invention of the Wilkinson analog-to-digital converter, to support his experimental work.[2]
He died on 22 April 2016 at the age of 93.[7]
His papers are held at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge.[1] He was an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1961, and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford from 1979.[1] He won the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 1965 and the Royal Medal in 1980.[2][8][9] In 1980 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.[10]
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External links
- Portrait (1990), by Keith Clements, held at the University of Sussex
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Oxford Physics – Denys Wilkinson Building Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite report
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- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:Cite webШаблон:Dead link
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