Herbert Sydney Green (17 December 1920 – 16 February 1999) was a British–Australian physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the

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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

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. He is often credited for the development of

parastatistics In quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, parastatistics is one of several alternatives to the better known particle statistics models (Bose–Einstein statistics, Fermi–Dirac statistics and Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics). Other alte ...

, one of several alternatives to the better known

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models.H.S. Green, A Generalized Method of Field Quantization. Phys. Rev. 90, 270–273 (1953).(c)

Education

Born in

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, he graduated with a PhD from the

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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 The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) ( ga, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a statutory independent research institute in Ireland. It was established in 1940 on the initiative of the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in Dub ...

in the school of Theoretical Physics. From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured

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at the

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, 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

* *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. *
''Re-published''

External links

Reference to Green
in the memoirs of J.C. Ward * {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Herbert S. 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