Person Brink; David Maurice (1930 - 2021) Brink David Maurice 1930 - 2021 Australian British Male Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 20/07/1930 19300720 08/03/2021 20210308

Physicist Nuclear physics Quantum mechanics History of science 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 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. Grants and fellowships: Royal Society Rutherford Scholar (1954-1958) Fellow 19/03/1981 50 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) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 20 Jul 1930 - 08 Mar 2021 NA4339 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 17/12/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM yes http://viaf.org/viaf/34539552 ab34d72a-7f09-4c03-bda5-d116ea34c2b0