Brian Ridley
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Brian Kidd Ridley FRS (born 2 March 1931) is a British solid-state physicist specialising in semiconductor theory. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Essex.[2]
Education
Ridley was educated at the
University of Durham.[3] He received a BSc degree in physics in 1953 and completed his doctoral studies in 1957.[1][4]
Career
Ridley began his career as a research physicist in the solid-state physics division of the
Research
Ridley has conducted work on
nonlinear entities has been verified in a wide variety of solids. His work on acoustoelectric instabilities led to his invention of the microsonic analogue of the laser. He has made original contributions to the theory of electron transitions in solids, particularly impurity scattering and multiphonon processes. This work is the subject of his monograph Quantum Processes in Semiconductors, widely used as a reference text.[5][6]
He wrote three popular books, Time, Space and Things (1976), which has been translated into multiple languages, The Physical Environment (1979) and On Science (2001).[1][6][7]
Awards and honours
Ridley was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994.[6] In 2001, the Institute of Physics awarded him the Dirac Medal in recognition of his four-decade long influence on the semiconductor theory.[8][7]
Selected works
Textbooks
- Ridley, B.K. (2017). Hybrid phonons in nanostructures. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-878836-2.
- Ridley, B. K. (1999). Quantum processes in semiconductors. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850579-5.
- Ridley, B. K. (1996). Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductor Multilayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-52934-4.
Books
- Ridley, B. K. (2016). Reforming science: beyond belief. Exeter: Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-84540-194-8.
- Ridley, B. K. (2001). On Science. Thinking in Action. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-134-53350-3.
- Ridley, B. K. (1976). Time, space, and things. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48486-2.
- Ridley, B. K. (1979). The physical environment. Chicester: Ellis Horwood Halsted Press. ISBN 0-85312-142-7.
Research papers
- Ridley, B.K. (1982). "The electron-phonon interaction in quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor quantum-well structures". Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics. 15 (28). IOP Publishing: 5899–5917. ISSN 0022-3719.
- Ridley, B.K. (1963). "Specific Negative Resistance in Solids". Proceedings of the Physical Society. 82 (6). IOP Publishing: 954–966. ISSN 0370-1328.
- Ridley, B.K.; Watkins, T.B. (1961). "The Possibility of Negative Resistance Effects in Semiconductors". Proceedings of the Physical Society. 78 (2). IOP Publishing: 293–304. ISSN 0370-1328.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Ridley, Brian Kidd". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 14 December 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b "Emeritus Professors - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering". University of Essex. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ^ "Graduates". Durham Colleges Gazette, 1950-1953. 4 (25): 3.
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- ^ The Royal Society. Archived from the originalon 21 June 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "Brian Ridley". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
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- ^ Physics, Institute of. "Dirac medal recipients". Institute of Physics - For physics • For physicists • For all. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
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