CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, June 17, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Brian Albert Robson has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Having accrued more than 50 years of inimitable experience in the field of theoretical physics, Dr. Robson has been rewarded for enjoying a very successful career as a theoretical physicist. In particular, during the last two decades, he has developed a new model of particle physics, named the Generation Model (GM), which provides the many elementary particles of the Standard Model (SM) with a substructure, which overcomes many of the deficiencies of the SM and also leads to a quantum theory of gravity. A native of Leeds, England, Dr. Robson attributes his success to the early influence of his mother, Rose Hannah Robson, who prior to her marriage to Albert Robson, was a school teacher, who encouraged and inspired an enthusiasm for education in her children. Dr. Robson won a scholarship to attend Leeds Grammar School, founded in 1552, where he obtained a Leaving Certificate at age 14, before emigrating with his family to Australia in late 1949. In 1951 he matriculated from Melbourne High School.
Originally intending to study mathematics, in 1952 Dr. Robson enrolled in the University of Melbourne, but soon found himself bored by the presentation and seeming limitations of the discipline at that time. He was introduced to theoretical physics in his third year at the University of Melbourne, and was immediately drawn to the vast unknowns and lack of constraints inherent to the field. After completing a Bachelor of Science in 1955, Dr. Robson continued his studies in theoretical physics at the University of Melbourne, earning by thesis a Master of Science in theoretical physics in 1957, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1960. During this period, he quickly attracted attention for his academic excellence, and was named as an Exhibition Scholar at Queen's College in 1952 and a Professor Kernot Research Scholar in 1957. He was rewarded by appointment as a Senior Demonstrator in practical physics from 1956 - 1960. Both his two postgraduate theses were theoretical studies in the then rapidly developing field of nuclear physics. In addition, Dr. Robson was introduced to electronic digital computing when the first such computer, CSIRAC, built in Australia in 1949 was transferred to the University of Melbourne in 1955, and he used it extensively for his research in theoretical physics during 1956-1960.
In 1960, Dr. Robson was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra, largely on account of his excellence in nuclear theory and digital computing. In early 1962 an IBM1620 computer was installed in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Dr. Robson was named Officer-in-Charge of this first computer to be acquired by the Australian National University, a position he held from 1962-1965. In 1963 Dr. Robson was appointed as a Fellow and in 1968 was promoted to Senior Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics, a title he held until 1999. In 1986, Dr. Robson was awarded a Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne based upon his published work on the theory of nuclear reactions and polarization phenomena. In 1987 Dr. Robson was appointed as Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, a position he held until 1995, when he was appointed Associate Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. In 1987 and 1988 he acted as Chair of the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics, and from 1987 until 1992 he was a Member of the National Committee for Physics of the Australian Academy of Science. As Head of Department, Dr. Robson was primarily responsible for initiating a series of annual three-week Physics Summer Schools organized by the Department of Theoretical Physics to extend its role in postgraduate education by providing intensive courses in important areas of physics. The courses, many given by eminent international physicists, including several Nobel laureates, have been published as a series by World Scientific Publishing Co. (Singapore). Throughout his career, Dr. Robson served on the Editorial Board of international journals, also as a visiting scientist to numerous institutions throughout the world, including the University of Birmingham, the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Oxford University, and played a significant role in international Nuclear Physics Conferences and Symposia on Polarization Phenomena. Dr. Robson's research has been published extensively in many international physics journals. Moreover, he is the author of "The Theory of Polarization Phenomena" written in 1974, and has edited several books, including "Nuclear Interactions", "Nuclear and Particle Physics", "Cosmology: The Physics of the Universe", and "Redefining Standard Model Cosmology".
Following formal retirement in 1999, Dr. Robson was appointed as an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics: this title was upgraded in 2016 to Honorary Professor. In 2001 he changed his main research interests from nuclear physics, firstly to particle physics and later to cosmology. From 2002 until 2019 he developed an alternative model to the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, which he named the Generation Model (GM), in order to overcome several deficiencies of the SM. The GM has been very successful in providing an understanding of many empirical observations that the SM is unable to do. In particular the GM indicated the quantum nature of the gravitational force, which also provided an understanding of several cosmological problems: dark matter, dark energy and the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. Professor Robson is currently completing a book, tentatively entitled: "Understanding Gravity: The Generation Model Approach", he was invited to write by World Scientific Publishing Co.
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