Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley

Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley (born 4 March 1915) was a mathematical physicist working on "lattice gases". His father, Harold William Vazeille Temperley, was a distinguished British historian.

He worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston on underwater explosions until 1965.

Professor Neville Temperley was head of the Applied Mathematics Department at Swansea University for 17 years until his retirement in 1982. He received the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1992.

He the father of Julian Temperley, creator of Somerset Cider Brandy, and grandfather of Alice Temperley, fashion designer of London.

elected Publications

*cite journal|last = Temperley|first = HNV|coauthor = Lieb, EH|title = Relations between the 'Percolation' and 'Colouring' Problem and other Graph-Theoretical Problems Associated with Regular Planar Lattices: Some Exact Results for the 'Percolation' Problem|journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences|volume = 322|issue = 1549|date = Apr. 20, 1971|pages = 251–280|url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0080-4630%2819710420%29322%3A1549%3C251%3ARBT%27A%27%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5&size=LARGE|doi = 10.1098/rspa.1971.0067

ee also

*Temperley-Lieb algebra

References

*cite book|last = Fair|first = John D.|title = Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm|publisher = University of Delaware Press|year = 1992|pages = 108|isbn = 0874134137|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=SU5GoH0tV6YC

External links

* [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1746 Recent winners of the Rumford medal] at the Royal Society's web site.