| Birth Name: | George William Rayfield |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco |
| Occupation: | Physicist, academic |
| Awards: | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Education: | B.S., Stanford University 1958 M.S. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1964 |
| Thesis Title: | Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium |
| Thesis Year: | 1964 |
| Thesis Url: | https://books.google.com/books?id=dWdLAQAAMAAJ |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Frederick Reif |
| Honorific Suffix: | Professor emeritus |
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, 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."