Richard Sillitto

Richard M. Sillitto
Born	1923 (1923)
Died	April 19, 2005(2005-04-19) (aged 81–82)
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Scientific career
Fields	Optical physics
Institutions	University of Edinburgh

Richard M. Sillitto (1923 – 19 April 2005) was an optical physicist who wrote a useful text on quantum mechanics. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Institute of Physics as well as a past president of the Scottish branch of the Institute of Physics. Sillitto was Reader and Reader Emeritus in the Physics department of the University of Edinburgh.

Bibliography

• Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, Richard Sillitto, (1967), Publ. Edinburgh UP, ISBN 0-85224-128-3
• Geometrical and Physical Optics, R M Sillitto, Longman Higher Education, ISBN 0-582-08880-1

External links

• Personal pages
• McClure organ, Caprington horn
• Maskelyne on Schiehallion
• Forty years of optics
• The durability of Maxwell's equations

The proposed book "Geometrical and Physical Optics, R M Sillitto, Longman Higher Education, ISBN 0-582-08880-1" was never completed.