Robin Devenish
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Known forDeep inelastic scattering[2]
AwardsMax Born Prize (2009)
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral studentsTerry Wyatt[1] Phillip Hallam-Baker

Robin Devenish is a retired physicist at the University of Oxford. An Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Devenish is a former Dean of Hertford College, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor of Physics. He is known for his work in the field of deep inelastic scattering, and was awarded the Max Born Prize in December 2009 for his work in this field, in which he is still active.[3][4][5][6]

Education and early career

Devenish was educated by the Benedictines at St Benedict's School, Ealing and at St John's College, Cambridge. He joined Oxford in 1979, having held various research positions in UK Universities and at the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg after finishing his doctorate in 1968.[7]

With Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Devenish co-authored a book on the subject of deep inelastic scattering, entitled Deep Inelastic Scattering.[2]

Awards and honours

The Max Born prize (announced in December 2008) was awarded to Devenish in March 2009. The prize was awarded by the IoP because: "Devenish's work has led to important advances in our understanding of the structure of nucleons, in particular that of the proton. Devenish played a key role in the determination of the structure functions of the proton and the derivation of the quark and gluon densities at small Bjorken x, which has led to major advances in the understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics.".[8]

References

  1. ^ Wyatt, Terence Richard (1983). A study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  2. ^ a b Devenish, Robin (2011). Deep inelastic scattering. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199602254.
  3. ^ "Recipients of the Born medal and prize". Retrieved 14 December 2009.
  4. ^ Robin Devenish's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Cooper-Sarkar, A. M.; Devenish, R. C. E.; De Roeck, A. (1998). "Structure Functions of the Nucleon and Their Interpretation". International Journal of Modern Physics A. 13 (20): 3385–3586. arXiv:hep-ph/9712301. Bibcode:1998IJMPA..13.3385C. doi:10.1142/S0217751X98001670. S2CID 119509451.
  6. ^ Derrick, M.; Krakauer, D.; Magill, S.; Musgrave, B.; Repond, J.; Schlereth, J.; Stanek, R.; Talaga, R. L.; Thron, J.; Arzarello, F.; Ayad, R.; Bari, G.; Basile, M.; Bellagamba, L.; Boscherini, D.; Bruni, A.; Bruni, G.; Bruni, P.; Romeo, G. C.; Castellini, G.; Chiarini, M.; Cifarelli, L.; Cindolo, F.; Ciralli, F.; Contin, A.; d'Auria, S.; Papa, C.; Frasconi, F.; Giusti, P.; Iacobucci, G. (1994). "Measurement of total and partial photon proton cross sections at 180 GeV center of mass energy". Zeitschrift für Physik C. 63 (3): 391. Bibcode:1994ZPhyC..63..391D. doi:10.1007/BF01580320. S2CID 120262041.
  7. ^ "Hertford College/People". Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Announcement of award on University of Oxford website". Retrieved 15 December 2009.
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