George W. Rayfield

George W. Rayfield Professor emeritus
Born	George William Rayfield 1936 (age 88–89) San Francisco
Occupation(s)	Physicist, academic
Awards	American Physical Society Fellow
Academic background
Education	B.S., Stanford University 1958 M.S. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1964
Thesis	Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Frederick Reif

George W. Rayfield (born 1936) is an American physicist and a professor emeritus of the University of Oregon.^[1]

Early life and education

The son of George and Hazel (née Wilson) Rayfield, George William Rayfield was born in San Francisco in 1936.^[2][3] In 1958 Rayfield finished a B.S. at Stanford; he earned both an M.S and a Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley,^[4] advised by Frederick Reif, with the dissertation, Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium.^[5][6]

Career

In 1967, Rayfield joined the faculty of the University of Oregon as an assistant professor,^[5] and was promoted in 1968 to associate professor,^[7] specializing in the "application of biological materials to electronic devices".^[8] He was awarded professor emeritus status in 1999.^[9]

Publications

Articles

• Rayfield, G. W.; Reif, F. (1964-11-30). "Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium". Physical Review. 136 (5A): A1194 – A1208. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.136.A1194.

• Rayfield, G. W.; Reif, F. (1963-10-01). "Evidence for The Creation and Motion of Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium". Physical Review Letters. 11 (7): 305–308. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.305.

• Woolf, Michael A.; Rayfield, G. W. (1965-08-09). "Energy of Negative Ions in Liquid Helium by Photoelectric Injection". Physical Review Letters. 15 (6): 235–237. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.235.

• Hifeda, Y. F.; Rayfield, G. W. (January 1992). "Evidence for first-order phase transitions in lipid and fatty acid monolayers". Langmuir. 8 (1): 197–200. doi:10.1021/la00037a036. ISSN 0743-7463.

• Herrmann, T. R.; Rayfield, G. W. (1978-02-01). "The electrical response to light of bacteriorhodopsin in planar membranes". Biophysical Journal. 21 (2): 111–125. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(78)85512-X. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 1473346. PMID 623861.

• Sarkar, Abhijit; Pak, Joshua J.; Rayfield, George W.; Haley, Michael M. (2001-11-23). "Nonlinear optical properties of dehydrobenzo[18]annulenes: expanded two-dimensional dipolar and octupolar NLO chromophores". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 11 (12): 2943–2945. doi:10.1039/B107182N. ISSN 1364-5501.

• Simmeth, R.; Rayfield, G. W. (1990-05-01). "Evidence that the photoelectric response of bacteriorhodopsin occurs in less than 5 picoseconds". Biophysical Journal. 57 (5): 1099–1101. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(90)82629-1. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 1280816. PMID 19431755.

• Schoepe, W.; Rayfield, G. W. (1973-06-01). "Tunneling from Electronic Bubble States in Liquid Helium through the Liquid-Vapor Interface". Physical Review A. 7 (6): 2111–2121. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.7.2111.

• Schmidt, P. K.; Rayfield, G. W. (1994-07-01). "Hyper-Rayleigh light scattering from an aqueous suspension of purple membrane". Applied Optics. 33 (19): 4286–4292. doi:10.1364/AO.33.004286. ISSN 2155-3165. PMID 20935785.

• Rayfield, G. W. (1966-05-23). "Roton Emission from Negative Ions in Helium II". Physical Review Letters. 16 (21): 934–936. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.934.

• Rayfield, G. W. (1968-04-05). "Study of the Ion---Vortex-Ring Transition". Physical Review. 168 (1): 222–233. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.168.222.

Patents

• US5825725A, Rayfield, George W. & Hsu, Kuo-Chung, "Method and apparatus for reversible optical data storage", issued 1998-10-20 

Awards, honors

Rayfield was named a Fellow^[10] in the American Physical Society in 1995,^[11] after being nominated by the Division of Biological Physics.^[12] Rayfield was cited for "definitive experimental proof for quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium; for high precision studies on phase transitions in monolayers; for extensive studies on the optical and electrical properties of bacteriorhodopsin, and ensuing device applications."^[11]

References

1. "George Rayfield | Department of Physics". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
2. "California Birth Index, 1905-1995". www.ancestry.com. 1936. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
3. "U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
4. "George W. Rayfield". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
5. Matthews, Brian (March 20, 2016). "Historical summary of the U. of O. Department of Physics: Biophysics" (PDF). uoregon.edu. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
6. Rayfield, George William (1964). Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium. University of California.
7. "Notes on the History of the Department of Physics 1878-1971 | Department of Physics". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
8. "George Rayfield | College of Arts and Sciences". cas.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
9. "Nes & Views, Faculty and Staff Newsletter" (PDF). scholarsbank.uoregon.edu. January 8, 1999. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
10. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
11. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
12. "APS Fellows 1995". www.aps.org. 1995. Retrieved 2017-04-20.