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Prof Donald Davis
Emeritus Professor in Physics
Dept of Physics & Astronomy
Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Oct 2000
Research summary
My research interests include a number of topics in intermediate energy and high energy particle physics, namely strange particle and heavy flavour physics, the study of hypernuclei, ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics and the presence of neutron haloes in heavy nuclei. This research has been carried out using nuclear photographic emulsions, bubble chambers and various emulsion-counter hybrid techniques at accelerator laboratories in Europe, USA and Japan.
Biography
I came to UCL in 1953 and graduated in Physics in 1956 and then stayed on as a research student, gaining my PhD in 1959 in nuclear physics. After two years as a postdoctoral DSIR research assistant I went as a Fulbright Travel Scholar to the University of Chicago as a research associate (1961-62). On returning to UCL I was appointed a lecturer in 1963, promoted to Reader in 1972 and to Professor in 1986. I am currently Emeritus Professor in the Department..
