Brian Garner Wybourne

Brian Garner Wybourne
Born (1935-03-05)5 March 1935
Morrinsville, New Zealand
Died 26 November 2003(2003-11-26) (aged 68)
Toruń, Poland
Residence New Zealand, Poland
Fields Physics
Institutions University of Canterbury
Nicholas Copernicus University
Alma mater Canterbury University College
Thesis An analysis of the solid state spectra of trivalent rare-earth ions (1960)
Academic advisors Alan Runciman
Notable awards Hector Medal (1970)

Brian Garner Wybourne (5 March 1935 – 26 November 2003) was a New Zealand physicist known for his work on the energy levels of rare-earth ions.

Born in Morrinsville in 1935, Wybourne attended Canterbury University College, graduating with an MSc with second-class honours in 1958 and a PhD in 1960.[1]

After post-doctoral research positions at Johns Hopkins University and Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, Wybourne returned to the University of Canterbury in 1966 to take up a professorship in physics.[2] He served as the head of the physics department from December 1982 to November 1989.[3] In 1991 he was a visiting professor at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, and decided to remain there permanently.[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1970,[4] and the same year he won the society's Hector Medal, the highest award in New Zealand science at that time.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "NZ university graduates 1871–1960: Wi–Z". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 Butler, Phil (2004). "Brian Garner Wybourne". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Butler, Philip H. (2006). "Brian Wybourne: his life at Canterbury". In King, R.C.; Bylicki, M.; Karwowski, J. Symmetry, Spectroscopy and SCHUR: Proceedings of the Prof. Brian G. Wybourne Commemorative Meeting, 12–14 June 2005. Toruń: N. Copernicus University Press. pp. 3–9. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Academy: V–Z". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

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