Richard Sillitto

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Richard M. Sillitto (1923-2005) was an optical physicist who wrote a useful text on quantum mechanics. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Institute of Physics as well as a past president of the Scottish branch of the Institute of Physics. Sillitto was Reader and Reader Emeritus in the Physics department of the University of Edinburgh. He died on April 19 2005.

[edit] Bibliography

• Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, Richard Sillitto, (1967), Publ. Edinburgh UP, ISBN 0-85224-128-3
• Geometrical and Physical Optics, R M Sillitto, Longman Higher Education, ISBN 0-582-08880-1

[edit] External links

• Personal pages

• McClure organ, Caprington horn

• Maskelyne on Schiehallion

• Forty years of optics

• The durability of Maxwell's equations

The proposed book "Geometrical and Physical Optics, R M Sillitto, Longman Higher Education, ISBN 0-582-08880-1" was never completed.