James Philip Elliott
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James Philip "Phil" Elliott FRS[1] (born 27 July 1929 in Gosport; died 21 October 2008 in Lewes) was a British theoretical nuclear physicist.[2][3]
Life
Elliott studied at the
Brian Flowers, fundamental work was carried out in the 1950s that helped to unite the shell model with collective models of the core structure. In particular, they investigated the structure of light nuclei (oxygen, fluorine). He was at the University of Rochester for a year and was from 1962 professor at the University of Sussex
, where he retired in 1994, but remained scientifically active until his death. From 1979 to 1984 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science.
Elliott was a pioneer in the application of group theory in nuclear physics with work on the application of the
Hartree-Fock methods) at the University of Sussex, which were derived from scattering matrix elements of free nucleons and which became known as Sussex Matrix Elements. In the 1980s he dealt with the interacting boson model
and its justification in shell theory.
He was married to Mavis Avery and had a son and a daughter. His hobbies were opera and gardening.[2]
Honours and awards
Elliott was elected to the
Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1994 and the Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society in 2002.[2][3]
References
- ^ Van Isacker, Piet; Gelletly, William (2021). "James Philip Elliott. 27 July 1929—21 October 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71.
- ^ a b c Evans, Tony (21 January 2009). "Obituary: Phil Elliott". the Guardian. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
- ^ ISSN 0375-9474.
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