Rodney Baxter | |
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.jpeg) Baxter in 1999 | |
| Born | 8 February 1940 |
| Education | Bancroft's School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA) Australian National University (PhD) |
| Known for | Statistical Mechanics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | Iraq Petroleum Company (1964-1965) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968-1970) Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (1992) Australian National University (1970-2002) |
Rodney James Baxter FRS FAA (born 8 February 1940 in London, United Kingdom) is an Australian physicist, specialising in statistical mechanics. He is well known for his work in exactly solved models, in particular vertex models such as the six-vertex model and eight-vertex model, and the chiral Potts model and hard hexagon model. A recurring theme in the solution of such models, the Yang–Baxter equation, also known as the "star–triangle relation", is named in his honour.