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About Brendan Scaife
- Brendan Kevin Patrick Scaife FTCD, MRIA, Boyle Laureate (; born 19 May 1928), is an Irish academic engineer and physicist who carried out pioneering work on the theory of dielectrics.
- Scaife founded the Dielectrics Group in Trinity College Dublin where he is Fellow Emeritus and formerly Professor of Electromagnetism, and previously to that a professor of engineering science.
- Scaife showed that in a linear system the decay function is directly proportional to the autocorrelation function of the corresponding fluctuating macroscopic variable, and proved how the spectral density of the dipole moment fluctuations of a dielectric body could be calculated from the frequency dependence of the complex permittivity, e(?) = e'(?) – ie"(?).
- It was independent of Ryogo Kubo who in 1957 developed the corresponding theory for magnetic materials.
- The work was published prior to the work of Robert Cole in 1965 which is often cited.
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