Douglas Ross (physicist)
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Douglas Alan Ross 9 May 1948 [1] |
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| Thesis | Higher order corrections in muon decay (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor [3] |
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Website http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug | |
Douglas Alan Ross FRS (born 9 May 1948) is a British physicist. He is currently professor emeritus of physics at the University of Southampton.
Education
Ross was educated at New College, Oxford where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in 1969 and a doctorate in 1972, under the supervision of John Clayton Taylor. His thesis was entitled Higher order corrections in muon decay.[3][4]
Research
Ross is known for his contributions to the development and exploitation of gauge theories, both within and beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. His work has led to the understanding of the renormalisation structure of spontaneously broken theories and to the theoretical properties of the perturbation series in non-Abelian theories. He performed a number of the early perturbative calculations which helped establish quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong nuclear force. Among his contributions to physics beyond the Standard Model was the demonstration that the non-observation of proton decay excluded the simplest Grand Unified Theory.[5][6]
Awards and honours
Ross was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005.[5]
References
- ↑ ROSS, Prof. Douglas Alan. Who's Who. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- ↑ http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/content/douglas-ross
- 1 2 Douglas Ross at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.471002
- 1 2 "Douglas Ross". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2016)
- ↑ "EC/2005/34: Ross, Douglas Alan". The Royal Society. Retrieved 20 March 2016.