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Stephen (Geoffrey) Lipson | |
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Nationality | British |
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Fields | Physics |
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Doctoral advisor | Brian Pippard |
Stephen (Geoffrey) Lipson (born 8 January 1941) is an Israeli-British physicist. He is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Technion. [1] [2] [3]
Lipson was born in Cambridge, England, to Jane Rosenthal and Henry Lipson. His father was a pioneer in the field of Crystallography, which exposed Lipson to physics from a young age. In 1945 he moved with his parents to Manchester, where he attended Manchester Grammar School and won a physics scholarship from Trinity College, Cambridge. [4]
At Cambridge, Lipson pursued undergraduate studies in Physics and Mathematics (1958-1961), and a PhD in Physics (1961-1966) at the Cavendish Laboratory under the supervision of Brian Pippard. [5] In 1966, he joined Technion, retiring as a full professor in 2009. [2]
During his tenure at the Technion, Lipson held the El-Op Chair of Electro-Optics [6] and conducted research and authored over 240 papers in the fields of low temperature physics and optical physics. He also coauthored several textbooks and monographs. [1] [2] [7]