| RefNo | EC/1976/26 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XX, 26; A05299 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Nye, John Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1974 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | President of the International Glaciological Society (1966-9) and of the International Commission of Snow and Ice (1971-). His notable early contributions to crystal plasticity were (with Bragg) the bubble-raft model (1947), the photoelastic study of slip bands in silver chloride (1947-50) and a study of the geometrical relations in dislocated crystals (1953) laying the foundations of the subject of continuous distributions of dislocations. His book (1957) on tensor properties of crystals is a standard work.
In 1951 he was the first to apply slip-line plasticity theory to glacier flow, demonstrating its relationship to plastic compression between rough plates. His subsequent glaciological work includes (1952) deduction of ice-sheet thicknesses from plasticity theory (showing that rock-bottom in Greenland must be largely below sea level), (1953) formulation of a tensor-invariant generalisation of Glen's non-linear flow-law for ice, to form a basis for glacier mechanics, (1952, 1955) a theory of crevasse formation, (1959), from his own field work, an interpretation of waves below ice-falls, a series of papers (1958-68) on the long-term responses of glaciers and ice-sheets to varying accumulation and ablation, a revival of the old topic of regelation (1967, 1973) and work on the hydrology of glaciers (1973).
His recent work (1972) on the use of radio-echoes from the rock-bottom through the Antarctic ice-sheet not only promises a great increase in the accuracy of determination of ice-movements, but has also led him back to a connection with his early work introducing with (M.Berry) the novel concept of dislocations in wave-trains (1974). |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4040 | Nye; John Frederick (1923 - 2019) | 1923 - 2019 |