Edwin Power

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Edwin Albert Power
Kelvin Prize (1951)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics, quantum electrodynamics
Doctoral advisorJohn Currie Gunn


Edwin Albert Power (12 February 1928 – 31 January 2004) was an English physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics at University College London.[1] He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics.[1]

Life

Power was born in

Kelvin Prize in 1951 (the prize recognizes the best physics thesis of the year).[1] His doctoral work concerned meson production from proton–proton collisions.[1]

After his Ph.D, he worked at University College, where became professor of applied mathematics in 1967, and fellow in 1991.

Commonwealth Fund Fellow.[1] He then spent two years in the United States, one at Cornell University, one at Princeton University.[1] While at Princeton, he and John Wheeler worked on electromagnetism and gravity, resulting in the proposition of "thermal geons" in a paper published in Reviews of Modern Physics in 1957.[1][2]

Power then researched

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A.[1][3] Power also studied the relation between quantum electrodynamics and various optical and molecular phenomena.[1] In 1964, he published a book, Introductory Quantum Electrodynamics, based on a series of lectures he gave in Chile and the US.[1]

Power retired as a professor in 1993, but remained active in research until his death following a short illness.[1] He died on 31 January 2004, in London, England.

Selected publications

  • Power, E. A. (1964). Introductory Quantum Electrodynamics. London: Longmans.
    OCLC 490279969
    .
  • Edwin A. Power; John A. Wheeler (1957). "Thermal Geons".
    doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.29.480
    .
  • Edwin A. Power; Sigurd Zienau (1959). "Coulomb Gauge in Non-Relativistic Quantum Electro-Dynamics and the Shape of Spectral Line".
    doi:10.1098/rsta.1959.0008
    .

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
    doi:10.1063/1.1825282
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  2. ^ Edwin A. Power; John A. Wheeler (1957). "Thermal Geons".
    doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.29.480
    .
  3. ^ Edwin A. Power; Sigurd Zienau (1959). "Coulomb Gauge in Non-Relativistic Quantum Electro-Dynamics and the Shape of Spectral Line".
    doi:10.1098/rsta.1959.0008
    .
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