Neville Temperley

Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley (4 March 1915 – 2007) is a mathematical physicist working on "lattice gases". His father, Harold William Vazeille Temperley, was a distinguished British historian.

He worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston on underwater explosions until 1965.

Professor Neville Temperley was head of the Applied Mathematics Department at Swansea University for 17 years until his retirement in 1982. He received the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1992.

He the father of Julian Temperley, creator of Somerset Cider Brandy, and grandfather of Alice Temperley, fashion designer of London.

Selected publications

• Temperley, HNV (Apr. 20, 1971). "Relations between the 'Percolation' and 'Colouring' Problem and other Graph-Theoretical Problems Associated with Regular Planar Lattices: Some Exact Results for the 'Percolation' Problem". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 322 (1549): 251–280. doi:10.1098/rspa.1971.0067. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

See also

• Temperley-Lieb algebra

References

• Fair, John D. (1992). Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm. University of Delaware Press. p. 108. ISBN 0874134137.

External links

• Recent winners of the Rumford medal at the Royal Society's web site.