Douglas Ross (physicist)
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| Born | Douglas Alan Ross 9 May 1948 |
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| Thesis | Higher order corrections in muon decay (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor |
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Website http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug |
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Douglas Alan Ross FRS (born 9 May 1948) is a British physicist. He is currently professor emeritus of physics at the University of Southampton.
Ross was educated at New College, Oxford where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in 1969 and a doctorate in 1972, under the supervision of John Clayton Taylor. His thesis was entitled Higher order corrections in muon decay.
Ross is known for his contributions to the development and exploitation of gauge theories, both within and beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. His work has led to the understanding of the renormalisation structure of spontaneously broken theories and to the theoretical properties of the perturbation series in non-Abelian theories. He performed a number of the early perturbative calculations which helped establish quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong nuclear force. Among his contributions to physics beyond the Standard Model was the demonstration that the non-observation of proton decay excluded the simplest Grand Unified Theory.
Ross was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005.
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