David W. Taylor's Homepage  Professor Emeritus Department of Physics and Astronomy  McMaster University  Hamilton, ON  L8S 4M1  Office:  ABB-321  Phone:  (905) 525-9140 x23178  FAX:    (905) 546-1252  E-mail: taylordw@mcmaster.ca  Research Area: Condensed Matter Theory

Research Interest

David W. Taylor did his undergraduate and graduate studies at Oxford University, obtaining his D.Phil. in 1965. He spent 1965-67 as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J. and then joined the Physics Department at McMaster. He has been Professor of Physics since 1977. He spent 1974-75 on a Senior Research Fellowship at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford.

Dr. Taylor's research is mainly in the area of lattice vibrations, with the emphasis being on the vibrational properties of substitutionally disordered crystals. Of current interest is the use of the embedded atom model both for disordered crystals and also to calculate the anharmonic vibrational properties of crystals.
 

Selected Publications

• "Debye-Waller factor of sodium, A comparison of theory and experiment", R.C. Shukla and D.W. Taylor, 1992, Phys. Rev. B45, 10765-10768.

• "Phonon Response Theory and the Infrared and Raman Experiments", D.W. Taylor, in: Optical Properties of Mixed Crystals, ed. R.J. Elliott and I.P. Ipatova (North Holland), Chapter 2, 35-131 (1988).

Scuba Diving

Dr. Taylor is now involved with scuba diving and is a director of Save Ontario Shipwrecks and is financial director for the Ontario Underwater Council. A collection of his point and shoot pictures of reefs and wrecks is available at http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/~taylordw/photos/