Peter Vaughan Elsmere McClintock was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, on 17 October 1940.
Education
He received the Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1962 and the Doctor of Science degree from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed his Doctorate.Phil. at Oxford University in 1966, under Harold Max Rosenberg, with a thesis entitled Experiments on Spin Phonon Interactions in the area of paramagnetic crystals at very low temperatures.
Career
McClintock is notable for his scientific work on superfluids and stochastic nonlinear dynamics. He received the Bachelor of Science at Oxford University in 1966, under Harold Max Rosenberg, with a thesis entitled Experiments on Spin Phonon Interactions in the area of paramagnetic crystals at very low temperatures. He performed postdoctoral research on superfluid helium at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
He joined Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in 1968, where he is now a Professor of Physics.
His research interests span superfluid helium-4, medical physics, and stochastic nonlinear dynamics. The particular sub-topics are: (a) magnetism including, especially, studies of spin-phonon interactions in rare-earth ethylsulphate crystals.
(b) quantum fluids and liquid helium-4 in particular. (c) nonlinear dynamics and fluctuational phenomena including applications to physiology.
Since 2009, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters.
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