Summary
Herbert Sydney Green (17 December 1920 – 16 February 1999) was a British–Australian physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy. He is often credited for the development of parastatistics, one of several alternatives to the better known particle statistics models.[1][2]
Bert Green | |
|---|---|
 Herbert Sydney Green (1920–1999) | |
| Born | 17 December 1920 |
| Died | 16 February 1999 (aged 78) |
| Citizenship | British – Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | BBGKY hierarchy Born–Green reciprocity Parastatistics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Adelaide Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Born |
Education edit
Born in Ipswich, England, he graduated with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1947 with a thesis entitled A Unitary Quantum Electrodynamics.
Career edit
From 1950 to 1951 Green worked as a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in the school of Theoretical Physics. From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.[3]
Personal life edit
Green is survived by wife Marie-Louise Green and children Johanne Green and Roy Green (dean of several management schools around the world, including NUIG, Ireland and MGSM, Sydney).
Books by Green edit
- Green, H. S. (1965). Matrix Mechanics. Groningen, The Netherlands: P. Noordhoff Ltd.
- H.S. Green, Information Theory and Quantum Physics: Physical Foundations for Understanding the Conscious Process, Springer, 2000, ISBN 3-540-66517-X.
- H.S. Green, The Molecular Theory of Fluids, North-Holland, (Amsterdam 1952)
References edit
- ^ Cattani, M.; Bassalo, J. M. F. (2009). "Intermediate Statistics, Parastatistics, Fractionary Statistics and Gentilionic Statistics". arXiv:0903.4773 [cond-mat.stat-mech].
- ^ H.S. Green, A Generalized Method of Field Quantization. Phys. Rev. 90, 270–273 (1953).(c)
- ^ "Herbert Sydney Green". University of Adelaide.
- Peter Szekeres, "Mathematical physics at The University of Adelaide," Report on Mathematical Physics, 57(1), 2006, pp. 3–11.
- Angas Hurst (2001). "Herbert Sydney Green 1920–1999". Historical Records of Australian Science. 13 (3): 301–322.
Re-published "Biographical Memoirs: Herbert Sydney Green 1920–1999". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
External links edit
- Reference to Green in the memoirs of J.C. Ward
- Herbert S. Green at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Herbert Sydney Green 1920-1999 in biographical memoirs of Australian Academy of Science