Richard Sillitto

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.

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

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.