Brian Garner Wybourne
| Brian Garner Wybourne | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 March 1935 Morrinsville, New Zealand |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Toruń, Poland |
| Residence | New Zealand, Poland |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury Nicholas Copernicus University |
| Alma mater | Canterbury University College |
| Thesis | An analysis of the solid state spectra of trivalent rare-earth ions (1960) |
| Academic advisors | Alan Runciman |
| Notable awards | Hector Medal (1970) |
Brian Garner Wybourne (5 March 1935 – 26 November 2003) was a New Zealand physicist known for his work on the energy levels of rare-earth ions.
Born in Morrinsville in 1935, Wybourne attended Canterbury University College, graduating with an MSc with second-class honours in 1958 and a PhD in 1960.[1]
After post-doctoral research positions at Johns Hopkins University and Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, Wybourne returned to the University of Canterbury in 1966 to take up a professorship in physics.[2] He served as the head of the physics department from December 1982 to November 1989.[3] In 1991 he was a visiting professor at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, and decided to remain there permanently.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1970,[4] and the same year he won the society's Hector Medal, the highest award in New Zealand science at that time.[5]
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