Bruce McKellar

 ( 1941 Births ) 

He has held visiting positions at the French Atomic Energy Commission, Saclay (France), the TRIUMF Laboratories (Canada), the University of Washington (Seattle United States), the Los Alamos Laboratory (United States), CERN (Switzerland), the Yukawa Institute (Japan), the National Taiwan University, the National University of Singapore, the Australian National University and the University of Adelaide.

At Princeton McKellar began his work on weak interactions, calculating the parity violation in expected in Atomic nucleus. He also started his work on three and many body nuclear forces. It was characteristic of this work that he was applying the current algebra techniques of particle physics to obtain results about Atomic nucleus. During his time at the University of Melbourne, McKellar and his collaborators published his definitive study on three nucleon forces, famously known as the "Tucson-Melbourne" force. Tucson-Melbourne force, www.worldscientific.com His work on weak interactions led to calculation of the electric dipole moments expected for the nucleon and atoms in various models of these interactions. This work then evolved into studies of related effects in the B meson system.

McKellar and his students also did foundational work on the behaviour of neutrinos propagating through a dense background of neutrinos as one finds in the early universe. He is well known for the "He McKellar Wilkens" phase, a seminal quantum physics result predicted by He and McKellar, He and McKellar and Wilkens (independently) Wilkens in 1993–94.

McKellar has made significant contribution to the development of the study of physics in Australia. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1987, was its Vice President for Physical Sciences from 2000–2004 and its Foreign Secretary from 2004–2006. He was a founding member of the Australian Research Council, playing a key role in both its establishment and development.

McKellar actively facilitates physics research, policy development and international collaboration globally, especially in the Asia-Pacific Region. He served on the board of trustees of the sia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics and on the Council of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies for many years. He chaired the Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific of the International Council for Science (ICSU) (2009–2011), as well as the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1992–1998).

McKellar is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Institute of Physics (UK), the American Physical Society, and the Australian Academy of Science.

• 2014: Companion of the Order of Australia "For eminent service to science, particularly the study of theoretical physics, as an academic, educator and researcher, through seminal contributions to scientific development organisations, and as an author and mentor."
• 2009: Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science
• 2006: Harrie Massey Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (UK) and the Australian Institute of Physics
• 2001: Centenary Medal "For service to Australian society and science in theoretical physics"
• 1992: Walter Boas Medal, Australian Institute of Physics
• 1991: Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
• 1987: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
• 1977: Research Medal, Royal Society of Victoria
• 1973: Pawsey Medal, Australian Academy of Science
• 1962: University Medal, University of Sydney

• McKELLAR, B.H.J. — The One Pion Exchange Contribution to the Weak Parity Violating Nucleon-Nucleon Potential. Physics Letters 26B: 107 – 108 (1967).
• McKELLAR, B.H.J. and RAJARAMAN, R. — Three Body Forces in Nuclear Matter. Physical Review Letters 21: 450 – 453 (1968).
• LASSEY, K.R. and McKELLAR, B.H.J. — Parity Non Conservation in (n,p) Capture at Thermal Energies: The influence of Strong and Weak Interactions. Nuclear Physics A 260: 413 – 445 (1976).
• COON, S.A., SCADRON, M.D., McNAMEE, P.C., BARRETT, B.R., BLATT, D.W.E., and McKELLAR, B.H.J. — The Two Pion Exchange Three Nucleon Potential and Nuclear Matter. Nuclear Physics A 317: 242 — 287 (1979). This is the Tucson Melbourne Force paper.
• McKELLAR, B.H.J. — The Influence of Mixing of Finite Mass Neutrinos on Beta Decay Spectra. Physics Letters 97B: 93 – 94 (1980).
• McKELLAR, B.H.J., and GIBSON, B.F. — Nonmesonic decay of Heavy Λ-Hypernuclei. Physical Review C 30: 322 – 330 (1984)
• R.D.C. MILLER, and McKELLAR, B.H.J. — Effective Field Theory and Weak Non Leptonic Interactions. Physics Reports 106: 169 — 296 (1984).
• McKELLAR, B.H.J., CHOUDHURY, S.R., HE, X-G and PAKVASA, S. — The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment in the Standard KM Model. Physics Letters 197 B: 556 – 560 (1987).
• HE, X.-G., McKELLAR, B.H.J. and PAKVASA, S. — The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment. International Journal of Modern Physics A 4: 5011 – 5046 (1989), erratum A6: 1063 (1991)
• HE, XIAO-GANG, and McKELLAR, B.H.J. — Topological Phase Due to Electric Dipole Moment and Magnetic Monopole Interaction. Physical Review A 47: 3424 – 3245 (1993)
• McKELLAR, BRUCE H.J. and THOMSON, M.J. — Oscillating Neutrinos in the Early Universe. Physical Review D 49: 2710 – 2728 (1994)
• STEPHENSON, G. J. Jr, GOLDMAN T., and McKELLAR, B. H. J. — Neutrino Clouds. International Journal of Modern Physics A 13, 2765 – 2790 (1998)
• HE, X.-G., McKELLAR, B.H.J. Hadron decay amplitudes from B ---> K π and B ---> π π decays, ArXiv:hep-ph/ 0410098; (2004).

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics
• International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
• Scientific publications of Bruce McKellar on INSPIRE-HEP