George Stanley Rushbrooke
Prof George Stanley Rushbrooke FRS FRSE was a 20th century British theoretical physicist.Life
He was born in Willenhall, Staffordshire on 19 January 1915, a twin son of George Henry Rushbrooke and his wife Frances Isobel Wright. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School. He then won a major scholarship to study Physics at St John's College, Cambridge under Ralph Fowler, graduating in 1937.
His first role was as a Research Assistant at Bristol University. He then got a research fellowship at Dundee University where he met and collaborated with Charles Coulson.
In 1936 he was recipient of the Mayhew Prize.
In 1944 he moved to Leeds University as a lecturer in Mathematical Chemistry. In 1948 he moved to Oxford University as a Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. In 1951 he gained a Professorship in Theoretical Physics at Newcastle University.
In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Dirk ter Haar, Edward Thomas Copson, David Jack and John F. Allen. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
He retired in 1980 and died on 14 December 1995.Family
In 1949 he married Thelma Barbara Cox. They had no children.Publications
