RefNo | EC/1982/34 |
Previous numbers | Cert XXI, 78 |
Level | Item |
Title | Rushbrooke, George Stanley: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Date | 1979 |
Description | Citation typed |
Citation | Distinguished for his pioneering work in statistical mechanics and the theory of liquids. His papers in establishing the properties of the radial distribution function and its relation to thermodynamic quantities have laid the foundation of the modern theory of liquids. His investigations into the Ising and Heisenberg models of ferromagnetism and the related problem of regular solutions continued for more than two decades, and provided information of great importance for comparison of theory with experiment. Of particular significance to the development of the theory of critical phenomena was a note published in 1963 establishing on thermodynamic grounds an inequality which must be satisfied by certain critical exponents. "Rushbrooke's Inequality" led to a chain of other rigorous inequalities, and served as a precursor to the scaling relations, which are a pivotal feature of the modern theory of critical phenomena. |
AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA2151 | Rushbrooke; George Stanley (1915 - 1995) | 1915 - 1995 |