Herbert S. Green

Bert Green
Herbert Sydney Green (1920–1999)
Born	17 December 1920 Ipswich, England, UK
Died	16 February 1999(1999-02-16) (aged 78) Adelaide, Australia
Citizenship	British – Australian
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Known for	BBGKY hierarchy
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Adelaide Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Doctoral advisor	Max Born
Doctoral students	Maurice Brearley Ian McCarthy Robin Storer Anthony Bracken James Evans Mark Gould Philip Broadbridge Richard Kleeman

Herbert (Bert) 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.

Education

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

From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Personal life

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

• 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.

References

• Peter Szekeres, "Mathematical physics at The University of Adelaide," Report on Mathematical Physics, 57(1), 2006, pp. 3–11.
• Angus Hurst (2000). "Herbert Sydney Green 1920–1999". Historical Records of Australian Science. 14 (3): 301–322. Re-published "Biographical Memoirs: Herbert Sydney Green 1920–1999". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 7 December 2011.

External links

• Reference to Green in the memoirs of J.C. Ward
• Herbert S. Green at the Mathematics Genealogy Project