Name Joe Vinen Awards Rumford Medal Doctoral advisor David Shoenberg | Notable awards Rumford Medal | |
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Birmingham Thesis The hydrodynamics of liquid helium II (1957) Institution University of Cambridge, University of Birmingham | ||
Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge | ||
William Frank "Joe" Vinen FRS is a retired British physicist specialising in low temperature physics.
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Career
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.
Awards and honours
Vinen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1973. His certificate of election reads:
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."
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