163:. Finnis developed Finnis–Sinclair potentials, which transformed simulations of metals. Finnis–Sinclair potentials took into account the local density dependence of atomic interactions through two terms: the first a short-range repulsive interaction, the second an attractive force described by the square root of a sum of pair of interactions between neighbours. In 1988 he was appointed an
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