| RefNo | EC/1991/09 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Coles, Bryan Randell: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1988 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | His principal concerns have been with the electronic and magnetic structures and the electrical, magnetic and superconducting properties of metallic alloys, both dilute alloys and intermetallic compounds. Aspects of particular relevance are studies (predating Kondo) of anomalies in dilute alloys that were very relevant to theoretical developments, the first suggestion (in emphasizing spin-disorder effects in resistivity) of conductivity reduction by antiferromagnetic Brillouin zones, the attention he drew to the role of exchange effects in suppressing superconductivity that led to Doniach's introduction of the paramagnon concept, early work on the substances (christened by him as spin glasses) that have become a focus of theories of disordered magnetism, the first demonstration that non-S state paramagnetic resonance can be studied in metallic systems, the discovery of Y9CO7 the only magnetic superconductor where the magnetism is of 3d and therefore itinerant character, and the early involvement in the concepts of intermediate valence which have led to his recent activities on heavy fermion magnets and superconductors. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3474 | Coles; Bryan Randell (1926 - 1997) | 1926 - 1997 |