P. R. Wallace

P. R. Wallace
Born(1915-04-19)April 19, 1915
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedMarch 20, 2006(2006-03-20) (aged 90)
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cincinnati
MIT
NRC (Can)
McGill University
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Concordia University
Doctoral advisorLeopold 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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.