Tony Skyrme, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tony Skyrme

British physicist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1922

Place of Birth: Lewisham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1987

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme (; 5 December 1922, Lewisham – 25 June 1987) was a British physicist.
He first proposed modeling the effective interaction between nucleons in nuclei by a zero-range potential, an idea still widely used today in nuclear structure and in equation of state for neutron stars.
However, he is best known for formulating the first topological soliton to model a particle, the skyrmion.
Some of his most important work can be found in selected papers.
Skyrme was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 1985.