Robin Marshall | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1940 (age 85–86)[4] |
| Education | Ermysted's Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester (BSc, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics[1][2] |
| Institutions | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory University of Manchester |
| Thesis | Development of sonic spark chambers and a study of the reaction π−p → π+π−n in the 1 GeV/c region (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | R. J. Ellison |
| Doctoral students | Brian Cox[3] |
| Website | robinmarshall |
Robin Marshall (born 1940)[4]FRS is anEmeritus professor of Physics & Biology in theSchool of Physics and Astronomy at theUniversity of Manchester.[5][6]
Marshall was educated atErmysted's Grammar School inSkipton and theUniversity of Manchester where he was awarded aBachelor of Science degree in 1962 followed by aPhD in 1965[4] for research developing sonicspark chambers and studyingpion pair production inpionproton interactions.
Marshall is an innovator in the field of high-energyelectron–positron annihilation, making many personal contributions. He was the first at thePositron–Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator (PETRA) e+e− collider at theDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) to determine the electroweak properties ofleptons and thenquarks. These papers become templates for other experimenters over the next ten years. He performed the definitive analysis of the world's electron–positron data to produce what are now the textbook results for theQuantum Chromodynamics (QCD) 'fine structure' constant and thefermionelectroweak interaction parameters. In 1984, he published a novel method for isolatingbottom quark events and then used the method to measure the b electroweak properties, showing that it belonged to a weakisospindoublet state, and hence that thetop quark must exist. This was one of several significant physics results from PETRA. He was a group leader atRutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) from 1978 to 1992, and in the 1990s led the British involvement in an experiment at the electron–proton collider,Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage (HERA), at DESY.[7]
Marshall was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995[7] and was aFellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) from 1996 to 2018.[5]
In 1997, he was awarded theMax Born Medal and Prize by the German Physical Society.
Marshall has published a comprehensive history of "Three Centuries of Manchester Physics", in five volumes, covering the scientific, cultural, social and political aspects of the evolution of the subject in the city and its immediate surroundings.[citation needed]
In 2018, he published a book containing letters written mainly by physicists to the Nobel Prize winnerWilliam Lawrence Bragg during the first worlds war, providing fresh insight into the deeds and thoughts of scientists active in the front line of battle.[citation needed]
In 2019, he published a history of the discovery of transmutation in Manchester by Ernest Rutherford in 1919.[citation needed]
He has written one work of fiction "The Nobel Conspiracy".[8]
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