| Authorised form of name | Brink; David Maurice (1930 - 2021) |
| Dates | 1930 - 2021 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| British |
| Place of birth | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Date of birth | 20/07/1930 |
| Date of death | 08/03/2021 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Nuclear physics |
| Quantum mechanics |
| History of science |
| Activity | Education:
University of Tasmania, BSc (1951); Magdalen College, University of Oxford, MA, DPhil (1955)
Career:
Rutherford Scholar of the Royal Society (1954-1958); Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956-1957); Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford (1958-1988); H.J.G. Mosley Reader, University of Oxford (1988-1993); Balliol College Oxford, Fellow (1958-1993), Vice-Master (1976-1978); Emeritus Fellow(1993-2021); Vice-Director, European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics, Trento (1993-1998); Professor of the History of Physics; Universita degli Studi di Trento.
Memberships:
Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala (1992)
Medals/Awards:
Rutherford Medal of the Institute of Physics 1982; Lise Meitner prize for nuclear science of the European Physical Society 2006
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1981 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| RSActivity | Grants and fellowships:
Royal Society Rutherford Scholar (1954-1958) |
| PublishedWorks | https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83826657/ |
| OtherInfo | David Brink contributed significantly to our understanding of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions. These contributions established him as an original, energetic and resourceful nuclear theorist. His name is associated with fluctuation cross-sections, dipole strength functions, giant dipole oscillations of closed shells, generator coordinate methods for structure and reactions, angular momentum selection rules in ion–ion reactions and adiabatic time-dependent Hartree–Fock theory. Particularly admired is his work showing that almost all essential nuclear data can be reproduced with Hartree–Fock theory and a simple effective interaction; equally striking are his studies, pursued with remarkable insight, of the interplay between single-particle motion and between single-particle motion and cluster structure.
Professor David Brink FRS died on 8 March 2021.David Brink contributed significantly to our understanding of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions. These contributions established him as an original, energetic and resourceful nuclear theorist. His name is associated with fluctuation cross-sections, dipole strength functions, giant dipole oscillations of closed shells, generator coordinate methods for structure and reactions, angular momentum selection rules in ion–ion reactions and adiabatic time-dependent Hartree–Fock theory. Particularly admired is his work showing that almost all essential nuclear data can be reproduced with Hartree–Fock theory and a simple effective interaction; equally striking are his studies, pursued with remarkable insight, of the interplay between single-particle motion and between single-particle motion and cluster structure.
Professor David Brink FRS died on 8 March 2021. |
| Source | Sources:
Royal Society profile page (https://royalsociety.org/people/david-brink-11139/, accessed 15 April 2021)
References:
University of Oxford, Department of Physics, News (17 April 2021), 'Obituary: David Brink FRS' (https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/2021/03/17/obituary-david-brink-frs#, accessed 15 April 2021)
Balliol College (9 March 2021), 'Professor David Brink 1930-2021' (https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2021/march/professor-david-brink-1930-2021, accessed 15 April 2021)
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| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/34539552 |
| Code | NA4339 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1981/05 | Brink, David Maurice: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1976 |