The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge,and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named after the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. The laboratory has had a huge influence on research in the disciplines of physics and biology.
Lancaster University is a public research university in Lancaster,Lancashire,England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter,as one of several new universities created in the 1960s.
The Senate House is a 1720s building of the University of Cambridge in England,used formerly for meetings of its senate and now mainly for graduation ceremonies.
The Ascension Parish Burial Ground,formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's,is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge,England. Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there,including three Nobel Prize winners.
Sir David James Wallace,CBE,FRS,FRSE,FREng is a British physicist and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University from 1994 to 2005,and the Master of Churchill College,Cambridge from 2006 to 2014.
Brian Hilton Flowers,Baron Flowers FRS was a British physicist,academician,and public servant.
John Michael Kosterlitz is a Scottish-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.
Gonville and Caius College,often referred to simply as Caius,is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge,England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville,it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest. In 1557,it was refounded by alumnus John Caius. The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment,including fifteen Nobel Prize winners,the second-highest of any Oxbridge college after Trinity College,Cambridge.
The Nevill Mott Medal and Prize is an award presented in selected years by the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom,for distinguished research in condensed matter or materials physics. It was first established in 1997 thanks to a donation from Sir Nevill Mott's family. Sir Nevill Mott was one of the outstanding British condensed matter theorists and won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. He died in 1996. The award consists of a silver medal and a prize of £1000.
Ian Alexander Walmsley FRS is Provost of Imperial College London where he is also Chair of Experimental Physics. He was previously pro-vice-chancellor for research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford,and a professorial fellow at St Hugh's College,Oxford. He is also director of the NQIT hub within the UK National Quantum Technology Programme,which is led by the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics,the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.
John Maxwell Irvine was a British theoretical physicist and university administrator,who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the Aberdeen.
John Forbes Cameron was a Scottish mathematician,academic and academic administrator. He was Master of Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge from 1928 to 1948 and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1933 to 1935.
Mark Edmund Smith,is a British physicist,academic,and academic administrator. He specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and materials physics. Since October 2019,he has been the President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Southampton,having previously held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University,and Professor of Solid State NMR in its Department of Chemistry since 2012. He has previously lectured at the University of Kent and the University of Warwick.
Alexandra Olaya-Castro is a Colombian-born theoretical physicist,currently a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. She is also the Vice-Dean for the Mathematical and Physical science Faculty.
Elizabeth H. Simmons is an American theoretical physicist,and Executive Vice Chancellor at University of California San Diego. Formerly,she was a distinguished professor of physics at Michigan State University,the dean of Lyman Briggs College,and the associate provost for faculty and academic staff development. She has also held positions at Harvard University and Boston University. Simmons is married to fellow physicist,R. Sekhar Chivukula. Together they have two children.
Richard Fisher Belward was an English priest and academic. He was born Richard Fisher,adopting the name Belward in 1791.
Richard John Eden was a British theoretical physicist who researched quantum field theory,nuclear theory and S-matrix theory in the 1950s and 1960s.
