Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme | |
|---|---|
 Tony Skyrme in 1946 | |
| Born | 5 December 1922 Lewisham, London, England |
| Died | 25 June 1987 (aged 64) Birmingham, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Skyrmions |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics High-energy physics |
Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme (/skɜːrm/; 5 December 1922 – 25 June 1987) was a British physicist who was born in Lewisham.
He proposed modelling the effective interaction between nucleons in nuclei by a zero-range potential.[1] This idea is still widely used today in nuclear structure,[2] and in equations of state for neutron stars.[3]
Skyrme is perhaps best known for formulating the first topological soliton to model a particle, the skyrmion.[4] Some of his most important work can be found in his selected papers.[5][6] Skyrme was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 1985.
- ^ Skyrme, T. . (1959). "The effective nuclear potential". Nuclear Physics. 9 (4): 615–634. Bibcode:1958NucPh...9..615S. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(58)90345-6.
- ^ Bender, M. .; Heenen, P. H. (2003). "Self-consistent mean-field models for nuclear structure". Reviews of Modern Physics. 75 (1): 121–180. Bibcode:2003RvMP...75..121B. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.75.121.
- ^ Haensel, P.; Potekhin, A. Y.; Yakovlev, D. G. (2007). Neutron Stars. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-33543-8.
- ^ Skyrme, T. . (1962). "A unified field theory of mesons and baryons". Nuclear Physics. 31: 556–569. Bibcode:1962NucPh..31..556S. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(62)90775-7.
- ^ Skyrme and Gerald E. Brown (1994). Selected Papers, with Commentary, of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme. World Scientific. pp. vi. ISBN 9789812795922. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ Brown G.E. (ed 1994) Selected papers, with commentary, of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics: Volume 3. ISBN 978-981-4502-43-6