About Victor Emery
Lived 1934 – 2002 (aged 68). Victor Emery was a British physicist and university teacher.
Victor John Emery (16 May 1934 – 18 July 2002) was a British specialist on superconductors and superfluidity. His model for the electronic structure of the copper-oxide planes is the starting point for many analyses of high-temperature superconductors and is commonly known as the Emery model.
Biography
Early life Emery was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. While at Berkeley in 1960, together with Andrew Sessler, he made the prediction that liquid helium-3 would experience superfluidity by mechanism similar to the one of BCS theory.
On 13 October 2001, Emery became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Who was Victor Emery?
British physicist (1934–2002)
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Victor Emery was born on 16 May 1934 in Boston.
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Victor Emery died on 18 July 2002.
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Victor Emery was a physicist and university teacher.
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Victor Emery was British.
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