Herbert Sydney Green (17 December 1920 – 16 February 1999) was a British–Australian physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the
Nobel Laureate
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Max Born
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at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the
BBGKY hierarchy. He is often credited for the development of
parastatistics, one of several alternatives to the better known
particle statistics models.
[H.S. Green, A Generalized Method of Field Quantization. Phys. Rev. 90, 270–273 (1953).(c)]
Education
Born in
Ipswich, England
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, he graduated with a PhD from the
University of Edinburgh in 1947 with a thesis entitled ''A Unitary Quantum Electrodynamics.''
Career
From 1950 to 1951 Green worked as a professor at the
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in the school of Theoretical Physics. From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured
mathematical physics at the
University of Adelaide, Australia.
Personal life
Green is survived by wife Marie-Louise Green and children Johanne Green and Roy Green (dean of several management schools around the world, including NUIG, Ireland and MGSM, Sydney).
Books by Green
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*H.S. Green, ''Information Theory and Quantum Physics: Physical Foundations for Understanding the Conscious Process,'' Springer, 2000, .
*H.S. Green, ''The Molecular Theory of Fluids'', North-Holland, (Amsterdam 1952)
References
*Peter Szekeres, "Mathematical physics at The University of Adelaide," ''Report on Mathematical Physics'', 57(1), 2006, pp. 3–11.
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''Re-published''
External links
Reference to Greenin the memoirs of J.C. Ward
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1920 births
1999 deaths
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
British physicists
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
20th-century British mathematicians
Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies