Clifford Paterson Lecture
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The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society
given annually on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer. The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson (1879-1948), founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by General Electric
in 1975.
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
given annually on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer. The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson (1879-1948), founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
in 1975.
Clifford Paterson Lectures
- 1976 Eric Eastwood on Radar: new techniques and applications
- 1977 Gordon RawcliffeGordon RawcliffeGordon Hindle Rawcliffe FRS was a British electrical engineer and academic.-Life:Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe, whose father was an Anglican clergyman in Sheffield, was born on 2 June 1910, moving from Sheffield to Gloucester when he was two...
on Induction motors: old and new - 1978 Eric AshEric AshSir Eric Albert Ash, CBE is a distinguished German-born British electrical engineer and past Rector of Imperial College.Born in Berlin, Ash emigrated with his family to Britain in 1938 to escape Nazism...
on Recent advances in acoustic imaging - 1979 Gordon George Scarrott on From slave to servant: the evolution of computing systems
- 1980 Derek Harry Roberts on Memory: its function, technology and impact
- 1981 Cyril HilsumCyril HilsumCyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng HonFInstP is a British physicist and academic.-Life:He entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of three brothers, leaving in 1943 after being accepted into University College London, where he did his Bsc. In 1945 he joined the Royal Naval Scientific...
on Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit - 1982 Michael Crowley-Milling on The worlds largest accelerator: the electron-positron collider LEP
- 1983 John Edwin Midwinter on Optical fibre communications, present and future
- 1984 Alexander Lamb CullenAlexander Lamb CullenAlexander Lamb Cullen, FRS was a British electrical engineer.He was awarded an OBE in 1960.He was the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London, held the Pender Chair, from 1967 to 1980....
on Microwaves: the art and the science - 1985 George William GrayGeorge William GrayGeorge William Gray CBE, FRS is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hull who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible...
on Liquid crystals: an arena for research and industrial collaboration among chemists, physicists and engineers - 1986 Alec Nigel Broers on Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication
- 1987 Gareth Gwyn Roberts on At home with science and technology
- 1988 Walter Thompson Welford on Microlithography and the ultraviolet: experiments with an excimer laser
- 1989 Alan Walter Rudge on The organization and management of R&D in a privatised British Telecom
- 1990 Maurice Wilkes on Progress and research in the computer industry
- 1991 David N. Payne on Circuits, sensors and strands of light
- 1992 Marcel Garnier on Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing
- 1993 I.R. Young on Accurate measurement in in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?
- 1994 Michael Brady on Seeing machines and robots
- 1995 Frank KellyFrank Kelly (professor)Francis Patrick "Frank" Kelly, FRS is professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge....
on Modelling communication networks: present and future - 1996 Martin WoodMartin Wood (engineer)Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS was co-founder of Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful....
on Superconductivity: will the dream come true? - 1997 Gareth Parry on From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics
- 1998 Colin WebbColin WebbColin Edward Webb MBE FRS is a British physicist and former professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in lasers.-Life:Webb was born in 1937 and educated at the University of Nottingham and Oriel College, Oxford...
on Making light work: applications of high power lasers - 1999 Andy HopperAndy HopperAndrew Hopper CBE FRS FREng FIET is the Professor of Computer Technology and Head of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.-Research:...
on Progress and research in the communications industry - 2000 Eli YablonovitchEli YablonovitchEli Yablonovitch along with Sajeev John, was one of the two applied physicists who invented the field of photonic crystals in 1987. He and his team were the first to create a 3-dimension structure that exhibited a full photonic bandgap, it is called Yablonovite...
on Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies - 2001 Allan SnyderAllan SnyderAllan Whitenack Snyder is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind...
on Light guiding light in the new millennium - 2002 Roger NeedhamRoger NeedhamRoger Michael Needham, CBE, FRS, FREng was a British computer scientist.-Early life:He attended Doncaster Grammar School for Boys in Doncaster ....
on Computer Security? - 2003 Chris ToumazouChris ToumazouChristofer Toumazou, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIEE CEng is the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Circuit Design at Imperial College London...
on The bionic man - 2004 Sandu Popescu on What is quantum non-locality?
- 2005 Wilson SibbettWilson SibbettWilson Sibbett FRS CBE is a British physicist noted for his work on ultrashort pulse lasers.He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997, and awarded the Rumford Medal in 2000.-References:...
on Optical science in the fast lane - 2006 Richard FriendRichard FriendSir Richard Henry Friend FRS is Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is a fellow of St John's College...
on Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library - 2008 Martin Plenio, on Taming the Quanta
- 2009 Andrew DeMello
- 2010 David MacKay
- 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva for his outstanding contributions to basic science and engineering in the field of carbon nanoscience and nanotechnology.