Peter V. E. McClintock

Peter V. E. McClintock
Born (1940-10-17) October 17, 1940
Omagh, Northern Ireland
Residence United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields Physicist
Institutions Lancaster University
Alma mater Queen’s University, Belfast
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor Harold Max Rosenberg
Doctoral students Nigel G. Stocks
Known for Superfluids

Peter Vaughan Elsmere McClintock (born 17 October 1940 in Omagh, Northern Ireland) is notable for his scientific work on superfluids and stochastic nonlinear dynamics.[1]

Education

He received the B.Sc. degree in physics in 1962 and the D.Sc. degree from Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1966, under Harold Max Rosenberg, with a thesis entitled Experiments on Spin Phonon Interactions in the area of paramagnetic crystals at very low temperatures.

Career

He performed postdoctoral research on superfluid helium at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He joined Lancaster University, UK, in 1968, where he is now a Professor of Physics. His research interests span superfluid helium-4, medical physics, and stochastic nonlinear dynamics. The particular sub-topics are: (a) magnetism including, especially, studies of spin-phonon interactions in rare-earth ethylsulphate crystals; (b) quantum fluids and liquid helium-4 in particular; (c) nonlinear dynamics and fluctuational phenomena including applications to physiology. Since 2009, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters.

Honors

McClintock is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Books by McClintock

Notes

  1. IEEE Trans. Circ. & Sys.—II, Vol. 46, No. 9, pp. 1214, 1999.
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