Lewis Ryder
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Lewis Howarth Ryder (15 November 1941 – 18 December 2018) was a British
theoretical physicist.[1]
Biography
Ryder earned a master's degree in physics from
Edinburgh University under supervision of Peter Higgs, and later an SERC fellowship
.
In 1967 he went to the University of Kent where he remained for the rest of his career and became a senior lecturer.
His research interests were in geometrical aspects of particle physics and its parallels with general relativity, and the possible existence and detection of torsion and curvature in spacetime.[2] He also did research on the geometric phase and in condensed matter physics.
Books
- 1st edition 1985; Quantum Field Theory (2nd ed.). ISBN 9780521478144.[3]
- Introduction to General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0521-84563-2.[4]
- Elementary Particles and Symmetries. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd. 1975.
References
- ^ Lewis Howarth Ryder
- S2CID 250880186.
- S2CID 116146801. arXiv preprint
- S2CID 263027616.
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