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Russell J. Donnelly
Russell James Donnelly (born 16 April 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, died 13 June 2015 in Eugene, Oregon) was a Canadian-American physicist known for his work on classical and quantum fluid dynamics.[1][2][3] He connected the fields of low temperature physics and fluid turbulence.[4] LifeDonnelly graduated from McMaster University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952.[1] In 1956 he received his doctorate from Yale University, with a thesis entitled "On the hydrodynamics of liquid helium". His doctoral advisers were the noted physicists C. T. Lane and Lars Onsager.[4] His PhD work demonstrated that the oscillations of liquid helium in a U-tube at a low temperature could be described by two-phase liquid theory.[1] In 1956 he became an instructor and later professor at the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago, where he worked with S. Chandrasekhar and Dave Fultz. From 1959 - 1963 he was Sloan Fellow. In 1966 he moved to the University of Oregon,[1] where it was possible for both himself and his wife, art historian Marian Donnelly, to hold positions.[4] He eventually served twice as department chair at the University of Oregon.[1] In 1972 he worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Birmingham. He was a consultant at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[4] During his life he advised 25 PhD students, and mentored many others, including future Nobel prize winner David Lee.[1] He died from pneumonia on 13 June 2015 in Eugene, Oregon.[1][5] Honors
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