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Death NoticePhilip Russell Wallace 19 April 1915 - 20 March 2006 Published on 31 March 2006 Philip Wallace, a prominent Canadian theoretical physicist, was born and educated in Toronto. During World War II he worked in the Canadian Atomic Energy project in Montreal. In 1946 he joined the faculty of McGill University, initially in Mathematics and later in the Physics Department. He played a major role in the development of physics in Canada, particularly theoretical physics, training and encouraging many who went on to distinguished careers in Canada and the U.S. A superb teacher, he authored several excellent textbooks. His own personal research ranged widely, with a focus on condensed matter. In 1982 he retired to Victoria, British Columbia. J. D. Jackson
Current comments and reminiscences on Wallace:Philip Russell Wallace As someone who took Honours Math and Physics at McGill in the sixties, I heartily second Dave Jackson's assertion that Wallace was a superb teacher. I had a research job for two summers in his group, which resulted in my first published paper [Annihilation of Positrons in Liquid Helium and the Positron-Helium Bound State, H.C. Khare, P.R. Wallace, G.G. Bach and A. Chodos, Can. J. Phys. 42, 1522 (1964).]The entire theoretical physics contingent (which, in addition to Wallace, included Kahana, Margolis and Sharp)did a lot to inspire me and others at that time and place to pursue theoretical physics as a career. Alan Chodos
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