Biography:George W. Rayfield

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George W. Rayfield

Professor emeritus
Born
George William Rayfield

OccupationPhysicist, academic
AwardsAmerican Physical Society Fellow
Academic background
EducationB.S., Stanford University 1958
M.S. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1964
ThesisQuantized vortex rings in superfluid helium (1964)
Doctoral advisorFrederick Reif

George W. Rayfield (born 1936) is an American physicist and a professor emeritus of the University of Oregon.[1]

Early life and education

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

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

Articles

Patents

  • , George W. & Kuo-Chung Hsu"Method and apparatus for reversible optical data storage" patent US5825725A, issued 1998-10-20

Awards, honors

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

  1. "George Rayfield | Department of Physics" (in en-US). https://physics.uoregon.edu/profile/rayfield/. 
  2. "California Birth Index, 1905-1995". 1936. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2165717:5247. 
  3. "U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969". https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60722/images/41742_314893-00314?pId=2485577. 
  4. "George W. Rayfield". http://old-physics.uoregon.edu/physics/faculty/rayfield.html. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Matthews, Brian (March 20, 2016). "Historical summary of the U. of O. Department of Physics: Biophysics". https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/0/5172/files/2016/10/PhysHist2016-1lpjqx1.pdf. 
  6. Rayfield, George William (1964) (in en). Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium. University of California. https://books.google.com/books?id=dWdLAQAAMAAJ. 
  7. "Notes on the History of the Department of Physics 1878-1971 | Department of Physics". https://physics.uoregon.edu/history/historyrd/. 
  8. "George Rayfield | College of Arts and Sciences". https://cas.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/rayfield. 
  9. "Nes & Views, Faculty and Staff Newsletter". January 8, 1999. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/553/NV_1999-01-08.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. 
  10. "APS Fellowship" (in en). https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 "APS Fellow Archive" (in en). https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=&unit_id=&institution=. 
  12. "APS Fellows 1995" (in en). 1995. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1995&unit_id=DBIO&institution=University+of+Oregon.