Peter V. E. McClintock

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Peter V. E. McClintock
Born October 17, 1940 (1940-10-17) (age 71)
Omagh, Northern Ireland
Residence United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields Physicist
Institutions Lancaster University
Alma mater Queen’s University, Belfast
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor Harold Max Rosenberg
Doctoral students Nigel G. Stocks
Known for Superfluids

Peter Vaughan Elsmere McClintock was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, in 17 October 1940. McClintock is notable for his scientific work on superfluids and stochastic nonlinear dynamics.[1]

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[edit] Education

He received the B.Sc. degree in physics in 1962 and the D.Sc. degree from Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1966, under Harold Max Rosenberg, with a thesis entitled Experiments on Spin Phonon Interactions in the area of paramagnetic crystals at very low temperatures.

[edit] Career

He performed postdoctoral research on superfluid helium at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He joined Lancaster University, UK, in 1968, where he is now a Professor of Physics. His research interests span superfluid helium-4, medical physics, and stochastic nonlinear dynamics. The particular sub-topics are: (a) magnetism including, especially, studies of spin-phonon interactions in rare-earth ethylsulphate crystals; (b) quantum fluids and liquid helium-4 in particular; (c) nonlinear dynamics and fluctuational phenomena including applications to physiology. Since 2009, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters.

[edit] Honors

McClintock is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

[edit] Books by McClintock

  • Frank Moss and P. V. E. McClintock (Eds.), Noise in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0521352290.
  • P. V. E. McClintock, D. J. Meredith and J. K. Wigmore, Low-Temperature Physics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers, Blackie, 1992, ISBN 0216929792.
  • P. V. E. McClintock, D. J. Meredith and J. K. Wigmore, Matter at Low Temperatures, Blackie, 1984, ISBN 0216915945.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ IEEE Trans. Circ. & Sys.—II, Vol. 46, No. 9, pp. 1214, 1999.

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