Douglas Ross (physicist)
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| Born | Douglas Alan Ross 9 May 1948 [1] |
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| Thesis | Higher order corrections in muon decay (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor[4] |
| Website | southampton |
Douglas Alan Ross FRS (born 9 May 1948)[1] is a British physicist. As of 2017[update] he is Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of Southampton.
Education
Ross was educated at New College, Oxford where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, supervised by John Clayton Taylor for research on muon decay.[4][5]
Research
Ross is known for his contributions to the development and exploitation of
strong nuclear force. Among his contributions to physics beyond the Standard Model was the demonstration that the non-observation of proton decay excluded the simplest Grand Unified Theory.[6][7]
Awards and honours
Ross was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005.[6]
References
- ^ a b c "ROSS, Prof. Douglas Alan". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Douglas A. Ross". soton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
- ^ "Douglas A. Ross page at the University of Southampton". southampton.ac.uk.
- ^ a b Douglas Ross at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.471002.
- ^ a b Anon (2005). "Douglas Ross". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on February 20, 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - The Royal Society. Archived from the originalon 8 July 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
