Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme, (1922-1987) was a British physicist. He first proposed modeling the effective interaction between nucleons in nuclei by a zero-range potential[1], an idea still widely used today in nuclear structure[2]. However, he is best known for formulating the first topological soliton to model a particle, the Skyrmion[3]. Some of his most important work can be found in Selected Papers, with commentary by Brown. Skyrme was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 1985.
References
- ^ Skyrme, T (1959). "The effective nuclear potential". Nuclear Physics 9: 615. doi:.
- ^ Bender, Michael (2003). "Self-consistent mean-field models for nuclear structure". Reviews of Modern Physics 75: 121. doi:.
- ^ Skyrme, T (1962). "A unified field theory of mesons and baryons". Nuclear Physics 31: 556. doi:.
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