Douglas Ross (physicist)

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Douglas Ross

FRS
Born
Douglas Alan Ross

(1948-05-09) 9 May 1948 (age 75) [1]
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Higher order corrections in muon decay  (1972)
Doctoral advisor John Clayton Taylor [4]
Website southampton.ac.uk/~doug

Douglas Alan Ross FRS (born 9 May 1948) [1] is a British physicist. As of 2017 he is Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of Southampton.

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Education

Ross was educated at New College, Oxford where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, supervised by John Clayton Taylor for research on muon decay. [4] [5]

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. [6] [7]

Awards and honours

Ross was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "ROSS, Prof. Douglas Alan" . Who's Who . Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Douglas A. Ross". soton.ac.uk.
  3. "Douglas A. Ross page at the University of Southampton". southampton.ac.uk.
  4. 1 2 Douglas Ross at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Ross, Douglas Alan (1972). Higher order corrections in muon decay. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   500552345. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.471002.
  6. 1 2 Anon (2005). "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". Archived from the original on February 20, 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. Anon (2005). "EC/2005/34: Ross, Douglas Alan". The Royal Society . Retrieved 20 March 2016.