Joe Vinen Explained

Joe Vinen
Birth Name:William Frank Vinen
Birth Date:15 February 1930
Workplaces:University of Cambridge
University of Birmingham[1]
Alma Mater:Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis Title:The hydrodynamics of liquid helium II
Thesis Year:1957
Doctoral Advisor:Donald Osborne
David Shoenberg[2]
Awards:Simon Memorial Prize (1963)
Holweck Prize (1978)
Rumford Medal (1980)
Guthrie Medal and Prize (2005)

William Frank Vinen (15 February 1930 – 8 June 2022)[3] was a British physicist specialising in low temperature physics.

Career

Vinen was born on 15 February 1930, the son of Gilbert Vinen and his wife Olive Maud Vinen, née Roach. After Watford Grammar School, he attended Clare College, Cambridge, completing a doctorate (PhD) in 1956. He was a Research Fellow there from 1955 to 1958, when he became a Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[4] [5] In 1962, he was appointed to a Chair of Physics at Birmingham University. He was appointed to the Poynting Chair in 1973. He served as Head of Department from 1973 until 1981, and retired from the University in 1997.

Awards and honours

Vinen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1973.[6] His certificate of election reads:

He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1980 in "recognition of his discovery of the quantum of circulation in superfluid helium and his development of new techniques for precise measurements within liquid helium."

Personal life

In 1960, Vinen married Susan-Mary Audrey Master; they had one son, Richard, and one daughter, Katie, and lived in Birmingham.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Condensed Matter Physics Who's Who: Professor W F Vinen . University of Birmingham . 9 January 2013.
  2. Gough . C. E. . W F Vinen - a celebration . 10.1088/0953-8984/11/40/001 . Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter . 11 . 40 . 7669–7676 . 1999 . 1999JPCM...11.7669G . 250743330 .
  3. https://royalsociety.org/people/william-vinen-12463/ William Vinen
  4. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-41154 "Vinen, William Frank, (Joe)"
  5. The Cambridge University Calendar For the Year 1973–74 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), p. 374.
  6. Web site: William Vinen. Royal Society. London. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Web site: Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies . 2016-03-09 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20170710134855/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ . 2017-07-10 ., "Intellectual property rights"
  7. https://www.iop.org/physics-community/obituaries/prof-joe-william-frank-vinen#gref "Professor Frank William Vinen FRS CPhys Hon.FInstP (1930–2022)"