William Vinen#
| Email: | w.f.vinen 'at' bham.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 569 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Username: | wvinen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1973- : Emeritus Professor, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
- 1973-1997: Poynting Professor of Physics, University of Birmingham
- 1962-1973: Professor of Physics, University of Birmingham
- 1958-1962: University Demonstrator and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- 1955-1958: Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge
- 1956: PhD, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- experimental and theoretical studies of superfluidity, superconductivity, fluid dynamics, and the properties of two-dimensional systems
- behaviour of vortex lines in liquid helium and of quantized flux lines in type II superconductors
- superfluid phase transition in liquid helium by light scattering and very high resolution spectroscopy
- two-dimensional systems of electrons and ions
- classical and quantum turbulence
Honours and Awards
- Fellowship of the Royal Society 1973
- Simon Memorial Prize, Institute of Physics 1963
- Holweck Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics & the French
- Physical Society 1978
- Rumford Medal, Royal Society 1980
- Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics 2003
- Guthrie Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, 200
- Honorary Doctorate, Charles University, Prague, 2008
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