Cyril Domb

Cyril Domb FRS (; 9 December 1920 – 15 February 2012) was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist, best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He was also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on science and Judaism.

Early life Domb was born on 9 December 1920, the fourth day of Hanukkah, in North London to a Hasidic Jewish family. who had shortened his name from Dombrowski to Domb, was a native of Warsaw, while his mother, Sarah,

Domb possessed both an excellent memory and skill in mathematics. At the age of 17 he won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge.

After the war, Domb attended Cambridge University. He earned his PhD in 1949 with a doctoral thesis on "Order-Disorder Statistics". His doctoral advisor was Fred Hoyle.

Academic career Domb was a university lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge University between 1952 and 1954 and professor of theoretical physics at King's College London between 1954 and 1981. In the latter position, he became the youngest professor in London at that time.

Personal Domb married Shirley Galinsky in 1957; they had six children. (2nd edition published by Feldheim, 1982)