Leslie Victor Woodcock (born 20 May 1945,
Batley
Batley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Batley lies south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield. Batley is part of the ...
) is Emeritus Professor of
Chemical Thermodynamics at the
University of Manchester. He has also held appointments at the
University of Cambridge, the
University of Amsterdam, and the
University of Bradford. He has worked with simulations for the U.S. Air Force.
Woodcock received his
Ph.D. in
London in 1970. His work in the field of
molecular dynamics includes one of the first simulations of
ionic liquids and development of the WAC model of liquid
silica.
[I Saika-Voivod et al (2001) ''Computer simulations of liquid silica: Equation of state and liquid-liquid phase transition'', PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 63(1), art 011202.]
References
1945 births
Living people
English physical chemists
Alumni of the University of London
Academics of the University of Manchester
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
People from Batley
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