George W. Rayfield (born 1936) is an American physicist and a professor emeritus of the University of Oregon.[1]
George W. Rayfield Professor emeritus | |
|---|---|
| Born | George William Rayfield 1936 (age 87–88) |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, academic |
| Awards | American Physical Society Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S., Stanford University 1958 M.S. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1964 |
| Thesis | Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Reif |
Early life and education edit
The son of George and Hazel (née Wilson) Rayfield, George William Rayfield was born in San Francisco in 1936.[2][3] In 1958 Rayfield finished a B.S. at Stanford; he earned both an M.S and a Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley,[4] advised by Frederick Reif, with the dissertation, Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium.[5][6]
Career edit
In 1967, Rayfield joined the faculty of the University of Oregon as an assistant professor,[5] and was promoted in 1968 to associate professor,[7] specializing in the "application of biological materials to electronic devices".[8] He was awarded professor emeritus status in 1999.[9]
Publications edit
Articles edit
- Rayfield, G. W.; Reif, F. (1964-11-30). "Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium". Physical Review. 136 (5A): A1194–A1208. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.136.A1194.
- Rayfield, G. W.; Reif, F. (1963-10-01). "Evidence for The Creation and Motion of Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium". Physical Review Letters. 11 (7): 305–308. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.305.
- Woolf, Michael A.; Rayfield, G. W. (1965-08-09). "Energy of Negative Ions in Liquid Helium by Photoelectric Injection". Physical Review Letters. 15 (6): 235–237. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.235.
- Hifeda, Y. F.; Rayfield, G. W. (January 1992). "Evidence for first-order phase transitions in lipid and fatty acid monolayers". Langmuir. 8 (1): 197–200. doi:10.1021/la00037a036. ISSN 0743-7463.
- Herrmann, T. R.; Rayfield, G. W. (1978-02-01). "The electrical response to light of bacteriorhodopsin in planar membranes". Biophysical Journal. 21 (2): 111–125. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(78)85512-X. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 1473346. PMID 623861.
- Sarkar, Abhijit; Pak, Joshua J.; Rayfield, George W.; Haley, Michael M. (2001-11-23). "Nonlinear optical properties of dehydrobenzo[18]annulenes: expanded two-dimensional dipolar and octupolar NLO chromophores". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 11 (12): 2943–2945. doi:10.1039/B107182N. ISSN 1364-5501.
- Simmeth, R.; Rayfield, G. W. (1990-05-01). "Evidence that the photoelectric response of bacteriorhodopsin occurs in less than 5 picoseconds". Biophysical Journal. 57 (5): 1099–1101. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(90)82629-1. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 1280816. PMID 19431755.
- Schoepe, W.; Rayfield, G. W. (1973-06-01). "Tunneling from Electronic Bubble States in Liquid Helium through the Liquid-Vapor Interface". Physical Review A. 7 (6): 2111–2121. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.7.2111.
- Schmidt, P. K.; Rayfield, G. W. (1994-07-01). "Hyper-Rayleigh light scattering from an aqueous suspension of purple membrane". Applied Optics. 33 (19): 4286–4292. doi:10.1364/AO.33.004286. ISSN 2155-3165. PMID 20935785.
- Rayfield, G. W. (1966-05-23). "Roton Emission from Negative Ions in Helium II". Physical Review Letters. 16 (21): 934–936. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.934.
- Rayfield, G. W. (1968-04-05). "Study of the Ion---Vortex-Ring Transition". Physical Review. 168 (1): 222–233. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.168.222.
Patents edit
- US5825725A, Rayfield, George W. & Hsu, Kuo-Chung, "Method and apparatus for reversible optical data storage", issued 1998-10-20
Awards, honors edit
Rayfield was named a Fellow[10] in the American Physical Society in 1995,[11] after being nominated by the Division of Biological Physics.[12] Rayfield was cited for "definitive experimental proof for quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium; for high precision studies on phase transitions in monolayers; for extensive studies on the optical and electrical properties of bacteriorhodopsin, and ensuing device applications."[11]
References edit
- ^ "George Rayfield | Department of Physics". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- ^ "California Birth Index, 1905-1995". www.ancestry.com. 1936. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ^ "U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ^ "George W. Rayfield". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ^ a b Matthews, Brian (March 20, 2016). "Historical summary of the U. of O. Department of Physics: Biophysics" (PDF). uoregon.edu. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ Rayfield, George William (1964). Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium. University of California.
- ^ "Notes on the History of the Department of Physics 1878-1971 | Department of Physics". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ^ "George Rayfield | College of Arts and Sciences". cas.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ^ "Nes & Views, Faculty and Staff Newsletter" (PDF). scholarsbank.uoregon.edu. January 8, 1999. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ^ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ a b "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "APS Fellows 1995". www.aps.org. 1995. Retrieved 2017-04-20.