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Citizenship
  
British – Australian

Known for
  
Residence
  

Name
  
Herbert Green

Fields
  
Role
  
Physicist

Doctoral advisor
  
Herbert S. Green

Institutions
  
University of AdelaideInstitute for Advanced Study, PrincetonDublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Doctoral students
  
Maurice BrearleyIan McCarthyRobin StorerAnthony BrackenJames EvansMark GouldPhilip BroadbridgeRichard Kleeman

Died
  
February 16, 1999, Adelaide, Australia

Books
  
Information Theory and Quantum, Directions and Directing, The Horoscope in Detail, The molecular theory of f, Order‑disorder phenomena

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.

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Education

Born in Ipswich, England, he graduated with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1947 with a thesis entitled A Unitary Quantum Electrodynamics.

Career

From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Personal life

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).

Books by Green

  • Green, H. S. (1965). Matrix Mechanics. Groningen, The Netherlands: P. Noordhoff Ltd. 
  • H.S. Green, Information Theory and Quantum Physics: Physical Foundations for Understanding the Conscious Process, Springer, 2000, ISBN 3-540-66517-X.
  • References

    Herbert S. Green Wikipedia


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