Nationality United Kingdom Role Physicist Notable students Paul Davies Name Sigurd Zienau Fields Physicist | Known for Theory of the polaron Influenced Freya Mathews Alma mater Birkbeck College Died October 18, 1976 | |
Institutions University College London
University of Liverpool Academic advisors Walter Heitler
Wolfgang Pauli
Herbert Frohlich Doctoral students Paul C. W. Davies
Hugh Osborn
Patricio Cordero Education Birkbeck, University of London Similar People Herbert Frohlich, Wolfgang Pauli, Walter Heitler, Paul Davies, Fred Hoyle | ||
Sigurd Zienau (1921–1976) was a physicist notable for the theory of the polaron.
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Education
His undergraduate studies were in mathematics at Birkbeck College. His further studies in physics were very much in the 'old school' European style at the time and he variously studied under Walter Heitler, Wolfgang Pauli, and Herbert Fröhlich.
Career
In 1954, he became an ICI Fellow and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Then in 1965, he became a Reader in Physics at University College London until his early death at the age of 55. As well as his work on polarons he is remembered for his insightful revisions of Walter Heitler's book Quantum Theory of Radiation and Nevill Francis Mott & Harrie Massey's book The Theory of Atomic Collisions.
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