Cyril Domb

Cyril Domb
Born9 December 1920
London, UK
Died15 February 2012(2012-02-15) (aged 91)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityBritish/Israeli
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge
Known forGillis–Domb–Fisher random walk
Domb–Sykes plot
SpouseShirley Galinsky
AwardsMax Born Prize (1981)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Critical phenomena
InstitutionsAdmiralty Signal Establishment
University of Cambridge
Oxford University
King's College London
Bar-Ilan University
Thesis Order-disorder statistics  (1949)
Doctoral advisorFred Hoyle
Other academic advisorsRobert Stoneley
Doctoral students

Cyril Domb FRS (9 December 1920 – 15 February 2012) was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist, best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He was also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on science and Judaism.