Robin Marshall
Robin Marshall (born 1940)[4] FRS is an Emeritus
professor of Physics & Biology in the School of Robin Marshall
FRS FInstP
Physics and Astronomy at the University of
Manchester.[5][6] Born 1940 (age 83–84)[4]
Education Ermysted's Grammar School
Alma mater University of Manchester (BSc,
Education PhD)
Scientific career
Marshall was educated at Ermysted's Grammar School
in Skipton and the University of Manchester where he Fields Physics[1][2]
was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 Institutions Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
followed by a PhD in 1965[4] for research developing University of Manchester
sonic spark chambers and studying pion pair Thesis Development of sonic spark
production in pion proton interactions. chambers and a study of the
reaction π−p → π+π−n in the
1 GeV/c region ([Link]
Career and research [Link]/MU_V
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Marshall is an innovator in the field of high-energy S21133709620001631) (1965)
electron–positron annihilation, making many personal Doctoral
R. J. Ellison
contributions. He was the first at the Positron–Electron advisor
Tandem Ring Accelerator (PETRA) e+e− collider at the
Doctoral Brian Cox[3]
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) to
students
determine the electroweak properties of leptons and
then quarks. These papers become templates for other Website [Link] ([Link]
experimenters over the next ten years. He performed [Link])
the definitive analysis of the world's electron–positron
data to produce what are now the textbook results for the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) 'fine
structure' constant and the fermion electroweak interaction parameters. In 1984, he published a novel
method for isolating bottom quark events and then used the method to measure the b electroweak
properties, showing that it belonged to a weak isospin doublet state, and hence that the top quark must
exist. This was one of several significant physics results from PETRA. He was a group leader at
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) from 1978 to 1992, and in the 1990s led the British involvement
in an experiment at the electron–proton collider, Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage (HERA), at DESY.[7]
Awards and honours
Marshall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995[7] and was a Fellow of the Institute of
Physics (FInstP) from 1996 to 2018.[5]
In 1997, he was awarded the Max Born Medal and Prize by the German Physical Society.
Publications
Marshall has published a comprehensive history of "Three Centuries of Manchester Physics", in five
volumes, covering the scientific, cultural, social and political aspects of the evolution of the subject in the
city and its immediate surroundings.
In 2018, he published a book containing letters written mainly by physicists to the Nobel Prize winner
William Lawrence Bragg during the first worlds war, providing fresh insight into the deeds and thoughts
of scientists active in the front line of battle.
In 2019, he published a history of the discovery of transmutation in Manchester by Ernest Rutherford in
1919.
He has written one work of fiction "The Nobel Conspiracy".[8]
References
1. Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdelalim, A. A.; Abdesselam, A.; Abdinov, O.; Abi, B.;
Abolins, M.; Abramowicz, H. (2011). "Measurement of underlying event characteristics using
charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 900 GeV and 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector".
Physical Review D. 83 (11): 112001. arXiv:1012.0791 ([Link]
Bibcode:2011PhRvD..83k2001A ([Link]
A). doi:10.1103/physrevd.83.112001 ([Link]
ISSN 1550-7998 ([Link] S2CID 119253282 ([Link]
[Link]/CorpusID:119253282).
2. Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdelalim, A. A.; Abdesselam, A.; Abdinov, O.; Abi, B.;
Abolins, M.; AbouZeid, O. S. (2012). "Search for Pair Production of a Heavy Up-Type Quark
Decaying to a W Boson and a b Quark in the lepton + jets Channel with the ATLAS
Detector". Physical Review Letters. 108 (26): 261802. arXiv:1202.3076v2 ([Link]
bs/1202.3076v2). Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108z1802A ([Link]
PhRvL.108z1802A). doi:10.1103/physrevlett.108.261802 ([Link]
vlett.108.261802). ISSN 0031-9007 ([Link]
PMID 23004963 ([Link] S2CID 39230566 ([Link]
[Link]/CorpusID:39230566).
3. Cox, Brian Edward (1998). Double diffraction dissociation at large momentum transfer (htt
p://[Link]/psfiles/theses/[Link]) (PDF). [Link] (PhD thesis). University of
Manchester. OCLC 644443338 ([Link]
EThOS [Link].675409 ([Link]
4. Anon (1996). "Marshall, Prof. Robin" ([Link]
who/U26756). Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black.
doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U26756 ([Link]
40884.013.U26756). (Subscription or UK public library membership ([Link]
m/page/subscribe#public) required.)
5. Marshall, Robin (2005). "Professor Robin Marshall FRS: Lean mean home page" ([Link]
[Link]/). [Link].
6. Wightman, R.; Marshall, R.; Turner, S. R. (2009). "A Cellulose Synthase-Containing
Compartment Moves Rapidly Beneath Sites of Secondary Wall Synthesis" ([Link]
0.1093%2Fpcp%2Fpcp017). Plant and Cell Physiology. 50 (3): 584–594.
doi:10.1093/pcp/pcp017 ([Link] ISSN 0032-0781 (http
s://[Link]/issn/0032-0781). PMID 19188260 ([Link]
19188260).
7. Anon (1995). "Professor Robin Marshall" ([Link]
s://[Link]/people/robin-marshall-11897/). [Link]. London: Royal Society.
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