David Maurice Brink FRS (20 July 1930, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia – 8 March 2021, Oxford, UK)[1][2] was an Australian-British nuclear physicist.
[4] As a Rhodes Scholar he became a graduate student in physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received his PhD in 1955.
[4] His doctoral dissertation Some aspects of the interactions of light with matter[5] was supervised by Maurice Pryce.
"[2] He was interested in the physics of giant resonances and developed semi classical methods for heavy ion reactions which he used to explain the selectivity in the population of high angular momentum states in heavy ion transfer reactions and neutron transfer to bound states.
Satchler) is a classic introduction to the topic.For several years David had a very productive collaboration with Dominique Vautherin, Marcel Vénéroni and their colleagues at Orsay on the use of Skyrme's effective interaction for Hartree-Fock calculations and, later, on the semi classical theory of collective motion in nuclei.