P. R. Wallace | |
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| Born | April 19, 1915 |
| Died | March 20, 2006 (aged 90) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of Cincinnati MIT NRC (Can) McGill University Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Concordia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Leopold Infeld |
P. R. (Philip Russell; "Phil") Wallace (April 19, 1915 – March 20, 2006) was a Canadian theoretical physicist and long-time professor at McGill University. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India). He had a distinguished career as educator, researcher, and activist in science and society, but he is increasingly well known for his pioneering paper [1] in 1947 on the band structure of graphite, and particularly graphene,[2] the subject of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- ^ Wallace, P. R. (1947). "The Band Theory of Graphite". Physical Review. 71 (9): 622–634. Bibcode:1947PhRv...71..622W. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.71.622.
- ^ Geim, A. K.; Novoselov, K. S. (2007). "The Rise of Graphene". Nature Materials. 6 (3): 183–191. arXiv:cond-mat/0702595. Bibcode:2007NatMa...6..183G. doi:10.1038/nmat1849. PMID 17330084. S2CID 14647602.