Peter Schofield (London, 14 September 1929 - 15 April 2018) was a British physicist specializing in neutron scattering.
Schofield began his career 1956 in the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. A paper from 1962, written with Peter Egelstaff, on the evaluation of the velocity auto-correlation function has become a classic in the field. In 1979, Schofield became chairman of the Neutron Scattering Group of the Institute of Physics. In 1991-94, he served as UK Associate Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble.
Schofield loved classical music. He was an accomplished pianist and accompanist, wrote opera critics magazines, and published a book on The Enjoyment of Opera.
References
- Mike Hutchings (2018) Peter Schofield (1929–2018), Neutron News, 29:3-4, 20-21, DOI: 10.1080/10448632.2018.1551002
- P. A. Egelstaff & P. Schofield (1962) On the Evaluation of the Thermal Neutron Scattering Law, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 12:2, 260-270, DOI: 10.13182/NSE62-A26066.
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