Roger Cowley

Roger A. Cowley ( born February 24, 1939) is a British physicist who deals with experimental solid state physics.

He studied at Cambridge University, where in 1960 he took his bachelor's degree in 1963 and his doctorate. After that, he was a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and from 1964 Research Officer at the " Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.. ". Since 1970 he was a professor at Edinburgh University and since 1988 professor of experimental physics at Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College. Eight years he was also Chairman ( Chairman ) of the physics faculty at Oxford. Since 2008 he is a professor emeritus.

Cowley looked solid and condensed matter with x-ray diffraction and neutron scattering, for example, the phonon dispersion curves in ionic crystals, structural phase transitions in crystals, spin-wave excitations and excitations in liquid helium 3 and 4 He also studied various magnetic systems, the Heisenberg and Ising models in various dimensions correspond, and tested the theoretical predictions about the nature of the phase transitions.

Cowley 1973 was the first winner of the Max Born Prize.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Cowley is married and has two children.

Writings

• With A. D. Bruce: Structural phase transitions. Taylor and Francis London 1981, ISBN 0-85066-206-0 (in Russian: А Брус, Р Каули: .. . Структурные фазовые переходы Мир, Москва 1984).
• With ADB Woods: Structures and excitations in liquid helium. In: Reports on Progress in Physics. Vol 36, No. 9, 1973, ISSN 0034-4885, pp. 1135-1231, doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/36/9/002.