| RefNo | EC/1970/23 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVIII, 171 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Rowlinson, John Shipley: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Professor Rowlinson is known for his outstanding work on the thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and fluid mixtures. He has carried out both experimental and theoretical studies of the relation between the macroscopic properties of fluids and the forces acting between the molecules. In early papers he studied and interpreted the effect of polarity and non-sphericity on the equilibrium and transport properties of fluids. He discovered the wide occurrence of lower critical solution temperatures in mixtures of volatile and involatile fluids, and showed how to calculate accurately the properties of 3-component systems from the 2-component sub-systems. More recently he has demonstrated that the Lennard-Jones potential is not fully consistent with the properties of simple fluids, and has proposed a form for the pair distribution function which represents with high accuracy their properties over a wide range.
His work is characterized by experimental care, theoretical ingenuity and a constant awareness of the complexity of real systems. His work is proving a valuable guide to the study of systems at high pressures. His book "Liquids and Liquid Mixtures" has had great influence on research work on the subject. |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2323 | Rowlinson; Sir; John Shipley (1926 - 2018) | 1926 - 2018 |