George Stanley Rushbrooke

Prof George Stanley Rushbrooke FRS FRSE (19 January 1915 – 14 December 1995) was a 20th century British theoretical physicist.[1]

Life

He was born in Willenhall, Staffordshire on 19 January 1915, a twin son of George Henry Rushbrooke and his wife Frances Isobel Wright.[2] He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School. He then won a major scholarship to study Physics at St John's College, Cambridge under Ralph Fowler, graduating in 1937.[2][3]

His first role was as a Research Assistant at Bristol University. He then got a research fellowship at Dundee University where he met and collaborated with Charles Coulson.[4]

In 1936 he was recipient of the Mayhew Prize (jointly with Fred Hoyle).[5]

In 1944 he moved to Leeds University as a lecturer in Mathematical Chemistry. In 1948 he moved to Oxford University as a Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. In 1951 he gained a Professorship in Theoretical Physics at Newcastle University.[6]

In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Dirk ter Haar, Edward Thomas Copson, David Jack and John F. Allen. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.[7]

He retired in 1980 and died on 14 December 1995.

Family

In 1949 he married Thelma Barbara Cox (d.1977). They had no children.

Publications
  • Introduction to Statistical Mechanics (1949)
  • Concepts and Problems in Theoretical Physics (1955)

References
  1. Domb, Cyril (1998). "George Stanley Rushbrooke. 19 January 1915-14 December 1995". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 44: 365–384. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1998.0024. JSTOR 770250.
  2. "RUSHBROOKE, Prof. George Stanley". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  3. http://www.mcnabgroup.com/history%20mirror/rushbrooke.htm
  4. http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/44/365
  5. Home is Where the Wind Blows, Fred Hoyle
  6. http://www.rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/rushbrooke_george.pdf
  7. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
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