The ice-related research of Harry Kiefte and co-workers

Abstract

Harry Kiefte (1942–1997) was born in Amsterdam and moved to Toronto at an early age where he completed his formal education. His Ph.D. research was in the field of electron paramagnetic resonance under J.S.M. Harvey at the University of Toronto. He then completed two years of postdoctoral study with B.P. Stoicheff at the same institution where he participated in the pioneering work that led to the recording of the first Brillouin spectra from single crystals of rare-gas solids and the consequent determination of the elastic constants for these materials. It was the technique of Brillouin spectroscopy, and its application to the determination of the elastic properties of a wide range of crystalline materials, that engaged his interest and very considerable talents for the remainder of his career at the Department of Physics, Memorial University, where he accepted a faculty position in 1973. At the time of his death, at the relatively young age of 54, his name appeared as author or co-author on approximately 90 publications. Included among the co-authors were four graduate students whose research was devoted to ice-related studies. It is this significant contribution to our knowledge of the elastic properties of ice that will be reviewed in this paper. PACS No.: 62.20Dc