| RefNo | EC/1980/19 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XX, 196 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Kibble, Thomas Walter Bannerman: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1974 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his work in elementary particle physics and quantum field theory through a number of papers which have stood the test of time. He was the first person to treat generally the relativistic quantum kinematics of a four body scattering process giving the analytic expression for the boundary of phase space in all channels. He extended the work of Utiyama to obtained the gravitational field through the application of the theory of continuous (guage) groups to invariance with respect to the inhomogeneous Lorentz group and carried through the quantisation of the interaction of this field with a Dirac field. With the advent of lasers, Kibble (with Lowell Brown) developed a theory of the interaction of a beam of electrons with an intense beam of coherent light and predicted the intensity dependent Frequency shift in the scattered light. He has extended the methods used in the above problem to give a deep and unified treatment of the longstanding problems of infra-red divergences in quantum electrodynamics. He also significantly extended the work of Higgs on Goldstone bosons and was one of the first people to develop a calculus for higher order effects in the Regge pole theory.
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Distinguished for his contributions to heterocyclic chemistry, wide areas of which have been influenced by his studies of cycloadditions, rearrangements, tautomerism, aromacity, electrophilic substitution, conformational analysis and N-oxides. He has been one of the pioneers in the application of physical methods such as n.m.r. and infrared spectroscopy to heterocycles. His textbooks (published in eight languages) and monographs have stimulated interest in heterocyclic chemistry and the way it is taught. Under his leadership East Anglia has become established as a major centre of chemical research and of industrial-academic collaboration. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4165 | Kibble; Thomas Walter Bannerman (1932 - 2016); Sir | 1932 - 2016 |