Cyril Domb

Cyril Domb was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist, born in North London in 1920, best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduated in mathematics in 1941, and worked on radar at the Admiralty Signal Establishment during World War II. He earned his PhD at Cambridge in 1949 with a thesis on order-disorder statistics, was a lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge, and later became professor of theoretical physics at King College London. He was also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on science and Judaism.