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Martin Raymond (Ray) Flannery (January 8, 1941, in
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Martin Raymond Flannery
was Regents’
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He was known for his work in
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(AMO), and published over 160 papers in that area, 66 as sole author.Martin Flannery: Regents' Professor Emeritus
School of Physics, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology


Education and career

From 1952 to 1958 Flannery attended
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in Derry. In 1958 he entered
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(QUB), getting a B.Sc. in mathematics in 1961, and then a Ph.D. in 1964 under advisors Alan L. Stewart and Uno (Uuno) Öpik.Martin Raymond Flannery
at the
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His thesis was in two parts: ''Some properties of three-electron atomic systems abd'' and ''Photoionization of molecular hydrogen''. His early academic career included faculty positions at Queen's University Belfast (1964–66),
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(1966), Georgia Institute of Technology (1967–68), and
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(1968–71). At Georgia Tech, he rose through the ranks from Associate Professor (1971) to Professor (1974) and Regents' Professor (1993), formally retiring in 2007. He also held the following positions: * 1977: Visiting Fellow of the
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(JILA) in Boulder, Colorado. * 1979: Fellow of the
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(APS). * 1980 & 2000: Fellow of the
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in London. * 1993 & 2002: Fellow of the
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at Harvard.


Selected papers

* 1970: "Semiquantal theory of heavy-particle excitation, deexcitation, and lonization by neutral atoms: I. Slow and Intermediate Energy Collisions" in the
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, Vol 61, #2, * 1997: "Passive millimeter-wave camera" (with Yujiri, Larry, et al.), Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging Technology. Vol. 3064. SPIE, . * 2011: "The elusive d'Alembert-Lagrange dynamics of nonholonomic systems" in the
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, 79:9


Awards and honors

* 1961 Awarded the Purser Postgraduate Prize upon getting his B.Sc. at QUB. * 1997 Elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. * 1998 The
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awarded him the Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases.M. Raymond Flannery
1998 Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases Recipient,
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In 2012 the school of mathematics and physics at QUB established the Raymond Flannery Prize "to be awarded annually to the graduate in the School of Mathematics and Physics with the best overall mark".Raymond Flannery Prize: School of Mathematics and Physics
Queen's University Belfast


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Home page at Georgia Tech
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