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Joe Vinen

Joe Vinen
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Birmingham
Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis The hydrodynamics of liquid helium II (1957)
Doctoral advisor Donald Osborne
David Shoenberg
Notable awards Holweck Prize (1978)
Rumford Medal (1980)
Guthrie Medal and Prize (2005)

William Frank "Joe" Vinen FRS is a retired British physicist.

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." He was appointed to a Chair of Physics at Birmingham University in 1962. He was appointed to the Poynting Chair in 1973. He served as Head of Department from 1973 until 1981. He retired in 1997.


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