George W. Rayfield Professor emeritus | |
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| Born | George William Rayfield 1936 (age 88–89) |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, academic |
| Awards | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S., Stanford University 1958 M.S. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1964 |
| Thesis | Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Reif |
George W. Rayfield (born 1936) is an American physicist and a professor emeritus of the University of Oregon. [1]
The son of George and Hazel (née Wilson) Rayfield, George William Rayfield was born in San Francisco in 1936. [2] [3] In 1958 Rayfield finished a B.S. at Stanford; he earned both an M.S and a Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley, [4] advised by Frederick Reif, with the dissertation, Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium. [5] [6]
In 1967, Rayfield joined the faculty of the University of Oregon as an assistant professor, [5] and was promoted in 1968 to associate professor, [7] specializing in the "application of biological materials to electronic devices". [8] He was awarded professor emeritus status in 1999. [9]
Rayfield was named a Fellow [10] in the American Physical Society in 1995, [11] after being nominated by the Division of Biological Physics. [12] Rayfield was cited for "definitive experimental proof for quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium; for high precision studies on phase transitions in monolayers; for extensive studies on the optical and electrical properties of bacteriorhodopsin, and ensuing device applications." [11]