Professor George Neville Greaves
With the death of Neville Greaves earlier this month, the research community focused on glasses and disordered materials has lost one of its most cherished members. For the past near-decade, after stepping down as Head of the Department of Physics at Aberystwyth, Neville was a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Materials Science Department at Cambridge. During that period, building on collaborations within the Department, he published several papers ‒ the most prominent of which already has over 700 citations. In 2016, to mark his 70th birthday and to celebrate his scientific contributions, the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids published a special issue (vol. 451) dedicated to ‘Structure, dynamics and applications of non-crystalline solids and disordered materials’, the foreword to which gives a concise overview of Neville’s major contributions to these fields.
Professor A. Lindsay Greer
11 June 2019