Joe Vinen

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Joe Vinen
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Birmingham^[1]
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis	The hydrodynamics of liquid helium II (1957)
Doctoral advisor	Donald Osborne David Shoenberg^[2]

William Frank "Joe" Vinen FRS is a retired British physicist.

He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1980 in "recognition of his discovery of the quantum of circulation in superfluid helium and his development of new techniques for precise measurements within liquid helium."

References

↑ "Condensed Matter Physics Who's Who: Professor W F Vinen". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
↑ Gough, C. E. (1999). "W F Vinen - a celebration". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 11 (40): 7669. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/11/40/001.

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