Peter Schofield (physicist)

Peter Schofield (London, 14 September 1929 - 15 April 2018) was a British physicist specializing in neutron scattering.

[1] Schofield began his career 1956 in the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.

A paper from 1962, written with Peter Egelstaff, on the evaluation of the velocity auto-correlation function has become a classic in the field.

[2] In 1979, Schofield became chairman of the Neutron Scattering Group of the Institute of Physics.

In 1991-94, he served as UK Associate Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble.