Research Interest David W. Taylor did his undergraduate and graduate studies at Oxford University, obtaining his D.Phil. in 1965. He spent 1965-67 as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J. and then joined the Physics Department at McMaster. He has been Professor of Physics since 1977. He spent 1974-75 on a Senior Research Fellowship at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford. Dr. Taylor's research is mainly in the area of lattice vibrations, with the emphasis being on the vibrational properties of substitutionally disordered crystals. Of current interest is the use of the embedded atom model both for disordered crystals and also to calculate the anharmonic vibrational properties of crystals.
