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RefNoEC/2000/43
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TitleWyatt, Adrian Frederick George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionCitation typed. 4He: appears with 4 as small raised figure
CitationProfessor Wyatt is distinguished for his elegant experiments on the fundamental properties of quantum fluids. He has developed sensitive bolometric techniques with which he can observe and study directly the propagation of thermal excitations (phonons and rotons) in the superfluid phase of liquid 4He and with which he has discovered and studied the process of quantum evaporation in which a single such excitation expels a single atom from the liquid. His experiments almost always relate to interesting questions of fundamental importance. Recently, he has used ingenious techniques to study the wetting of surfaces by superfluid helium, placing him again at the forefront of a fundamentally interesting field of research
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