Herbert Sydney Green (17 December 1920 – 16 February 1999) was a British–Australian physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the

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at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the

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. He is often credited for the development of

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, one of several alternatives to the better known

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models.

Education

Born in

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, he graduated with a PhD from the

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in 1947 with a thesis entitled ''A Unitary Quantum Electrodynamics.''

Career

From 1950 to 1951 Green worked as a professor at the

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in the school of Theoretical Physics. From 1951 till his death in 1999, Green lectured

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at the

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, Australia.

Personal life

Green is survived by wife Marie-Louise Green and children Johanne Green and Roy H. Green (dean of several management schools around the world, including NUIG, Ireland and MGSM, Sydney).

Books by Green

* *H. S. Green, ''Information Theory and Quantum Physics: Physical Foundations for Understanding the Conscious Process,'' Springer, 2000, . *H. S. Green, ''The Molecular Theory of Fluids'', North-Holland, (Amsterdam 1952)

References

*Peter Szekeres, "Mathematical physics at The University of Adelaide," ''Report on Mathematical Physics'', 57(1), 2006, pp. 3–11. *
''Re-published''

External links

Reference to Green
in the memoirs of J.C. Ward *
Herbert Sydney Green 1920-1999
in biographical memoirs of

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Herbert Sydney (Bert) Green (1920–1999)
by H. M. P. Stock at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Herbert S. 1920 births 1999 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British physicists Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 20th-century British mathematicians Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies