George W. Rayfield

The son of George and Hazel (née Wilson) Rayfield, George William Rayfield was born in San Francisco in 1936.{{Cite web |date=1936 |title=California Birth Index, 1905-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2165717:5247 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=www.ancestry.com}}{{Cite web |title=U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969 |url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60722/images/41742_314893-00314?pId=2485577 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=www.ancestry.com}} In 1958 Rayfield finished a B.S. at Stanford; he earned both an M.S and a Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley,{{Cite web |title=George W. Rayfield |url=http://old-physics.uoregon.edu/physics/faculty/rayfield.html |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=physics.uoregon.edu}} advised by Frederick Reif, with the dissertation, Quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium.{{Cite web |last=Matthews |first=Brian |date=March 20, 2016 |title=Historical summary of the U. of O. Department of Physics: Biophysics |url=https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/0/5172/files/2016/10/PhysHist2016-1lpjqx1.pdf |access-date=June 27, 2022 |website=uoregon.edu}}{{Cite book |last=Rayfield |first=George William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWdLAQAAMAAJ |title=Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium |date=1964 |publisher=University of California |language=en}}

In 1967, Rayfield joined the faculty of the University of Oregon as an assistant professor, and was promoted in 1968 to associate professor,{{Cite web |title=Notes on the History of the Department of Physics 1878-1971 {{!}} Department of Physics |url=https://physics.uoregon.edu/history/historyrd/ |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=physics.uoregon.edu}} specializing in the "application of biological materials to electronic devices".{{Cite web |title=George Rayfield {{!}} College of Arts and Sciences |url=https://cas.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/rayfield |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=cas.uoregon.edu}} He was awarded professor emeritus status in 1999.{{Cite web |date=January 8, 1999 |title=Nes & Views, Faculty and Staff Newsletter |url=https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/553/NV_1999-01-08.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=June 28, 2022 |website=scholarsbank.uoregon.edu}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Rayfield |first1=G. W. |last2=Reif |first2=F. |date=1964-11-30 |title=Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.136.A1194 |journal=Physical Review |volume=136 |issue=5A |pages=A1194–A1208 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.136.A1194|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Rayfield |first1=G. W. |last2=Reif |first2=F. |date=1963-10-01 |title=Evidence for The Creation and Motion of Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.305 |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=305–308 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.305|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Woolf |first1=Michael A. |last2=Rayfield |first2=G. W. |date=1965-08-09 |title=Energy of Negative Ions in Liquid Helium by Photoelectric Injection |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.235 |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=235–237 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.235|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Hifeda |first1=Y. F. |last2=Rayfield |first2=G. W. |date=January 1992 |title=Evidence for first-order phase transitions in lipid and fatty acid monolayers |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la00037a036 |journal=Langmuir |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=197–200 |doi=10.1021/la00037a036 |issn=0743-7463|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Herrmann |first1=T. R. |last2=Rayfield |first2=G. W. |date=1978-02-01 |title=The electrical response to light of bacteriorhodopsin in planar membranes |journal=Biophysical Journal |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=111–125 |doi=10.1016/S0006-3495(78)85512-X |pmid=623861 |pmc=1473346 |issn=0006-3495}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Sarkar |first1=Abhijit |last2=Pak |first2=Joshua J. |last3=Rayfield |first3=George W. |last4=Haley |first4=Michael M. |date=2001-11-23 |title=Nonlinear optical properties of dehydrobenzo[18]annulenes: expanded two-dimensional dipolar and octupolar NLO chromophores |url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2001/jm/b107182n |journal=Journal of Materials Chemistry |language=en |volume=11 |issue=12 |pages=2943–2945 |doi=10.1039/B107182N |issn=1364-5501|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Simmeth |first1=R. |last2=Rayfield |first2=G. W. |date=1990-05-01 |title=Evidence that the photoelectric response of bacteriorhodopsin occurs in less than 5 picoseconds |journal=Biophysical Journal |language=en |volume=57 |issue=5 |pages=1099–1101 |doi=10.1016/S0006-3495(90)82629-1 |pmid=19431755 |pmc=1280816 |issn=0006-3495}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Schoepe |first1=W. |last2=Rayfield |first2=G. W. |date=1973-06-01 |title=Tunneling from Electronic Bubble States in Liquid Helium through the Liquid-Vapor Interface |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.7.2111 |journal=Physical Review A |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages=2111–2121 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.7.2111}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Schmidt |first1=P. K. |last2=Rayfield |first2=G. W. |date=1994-07-01 |title=Hyper-Rayleigh light scattering from an aqueous suspension of purple membrane |url=https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-33-19-4286 |journal=Applied Optics |language=EN |volume=33 |issue=19 |pages=4286–4292 |doi=10.1364/AO.33.004286 |pmid=20935785 |issn=2155-3165|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last=Rayfield |first=G. W. |date=1966-05-23 |title=Roton Emission from Negative Ions in Helium II |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.934 |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=16 |issue=21 |pages=934–936 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.934|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last=Rayfield |first=G. W. |date=1968-04-05 |title=Study of the Ion---Vortex-Ring Transition |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.168.222 |journal=Physical Review |volume=168 |issue=1 |pages=222–233 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.168.222|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite patent|number=US5825725A|title=Method and apparatus for reversible optical data storage|gdate=1998-10-20|invent1=Rayfield|invent2=Hsu|inventor1-first=George W.|inventor2-first=Kuo-Chung|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US5825725A/en}}

Rayfield was named a Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/|title=APS Fellowship|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}} in the American Physical Society in 1995,{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}} after being nominated by the Division of Biological Physics.{{Cite web |date=1995 |title=APS Fellows 1995 |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1995&unit_id=DBIO&institution=University+of+Oregon |access-date=2017-04-20 |website=www.aps.org |language=en}} Rayfield was cited for "definitive experimental proof for quantized vortex rings in superfluid helium; for high precision studies on phase transitions in monolayers; for extensive studies on the optical and electrical properties of bacteriorhodopsin, and ensuing device applications."

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