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Herbert Sydney Green (1920–1999)
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Born | 17 December 1920 Ipswich, England, UK |
Died | 16 February 1999 Adelaide, Australia |
(aged 78)
Residence | Australia |
Citizenship | British – Australian |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions |
University of Adelaide Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Doctoral advisor | Max Born |
Doctoral students | Maurice Brearley Ian McCarthy Robin Storer Anthony Bracken James Evans Mark Gould Philip Broadbridge Richard Kleeman |
Known for | BBGKY hierarchy |
Herbert (Bert) Sydney Green (17 December 1920 – 16 February 1999) was a British–Australian physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy.
Born in Ipswich, England, he graduated with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1947 with a thesis entitled A Unitary Quantum Electrodynamics.
From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Green is survived by wife Marie-Louise Green and children Johanne Green and Roy Green (dean of several management schools around the world, including NUIG, Ireland and MGSM, Sydney).