British low‐temperature prize

John C. Wheatley of the University of Illinois has been awarded the fourth Simon Memorial Prize by the Institute of Physics and Physical Society’s Low Temperature Group. Presentation will be made during the IPPS solid‐state physics conference next January in Manchester, at which Prof. Wheatley will deliver a lecture on ${}^3\mathrm{He}$ as a Fermi liquid. The Simon Prize, which was established in memory of Sir Francis Simon, former head of the Clarendon Laboratory, carries an honorarium of £250 and is awarded every two or three years for outstanding contributions in the low‐temperature field. Professor Wheatley was selected for his work on the properties of liquid ${}^3\mathrm{He}.$ These investigations have included studies of specific heat, entropy, superfluidity, magnetic effects, and sound propagation in ${}^3\mathrm{He}$ and have also led to the development of new experimental techniques in low‐temperature physics.

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