John Nye (scientist)

John Nye ( born February 26, 1923 in Hove, England ) is a British physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bristol. He made ​​important contributions to theoretical description of the glacier dynamics, but also published in other research areas, such as over crystals and microwaves.

  • 4.1 Books
  • 4.2 Papers (selection)

Biography

Nye studied from 1941 to 1948 at King's College in Cambridge, England and graduated with a Ph.D. He then worked as a demonstrator at the local University Department of Mineralogy and Petrology. After a short stay in the United States at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (1951-1953), he took 1953 as a Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Here he worked until his retirement in 1988 to 1965 as a lecturer, then as Reader and from 1969 as a professor. He has been married since 1953 and has three children.

Research

Although Nye has participated in several field campaigns were most of his work of a theoretical nature. From the solid-state physics, he worked from 1948 to the flow behavior of glaciers. His work has contributed significantly to the fact that a general flow law for ice could be formulated. From 1971 to 1975 he was President of the International Commission of Snow and Ice (ICSI ) and participated in the creation of an inventory of all existing worldwide glacier. In later years he worked in addition to problems of optics and the properties of the polar regions of Mars. Even after his retirement, he remained scientifically active in numerous publications from 1988 to 2013.

Awards

Awards (selection)

Terms

The Antarctic Nye Glacier (67 ° 28 ' S, 67 ° 31' W 67.466666666667 67.516666666667 - ) on the Arrowsmith Peninsula in Graham Land was named in 1962 after John Nye.

Publications

  • J. F. Nye, 1957, Physical Properties of Crystals: Their Representation by Tensors and Matrices. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-851165-6
  • J. F. Nye, 1999, Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light: Caustics and Wave Dislocations. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7503-0610-2

Papers (selection)

  • Bragg, L. and Nye, J. (1947 ): A dynamical model of a crystal structure. Proc. Roy. Soc. A 190, 474-481.
  • Nye, J. (1957 ): The distribution of stress and velocity in glaciers and ice -sheets. Proc. Roy. Soc. A 239, 113-133.
  • Nye, J. (1958 ): Surges in glaciers. Nature, 181, 1450-1451.
  • Nye, J. (1969 ): A calculation of the sliding of ice over a wavy surface using a Newtonian viscous approximation. Proc. Roy. Soc. A 311, p.445 - 467th
  • Nye, J. (1987 ): Catastrophe theory in geophysics. In Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences, C. Nicolis and G. Nicolis (eds. ), D. Reidel Publishing Co., 31-40.
  • Nye, J., Durham, W., Schenk, P., Moore, J. (2000): The instability of a South Polar Cap on Mars composed of carbon dioxide. Icarus, Mars Polar Science Special Issue, 144, 449-455.
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