Roy Sambles
Faraday Medal and Prize (2012) | |
|---|---|
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Exeter |
Sir John Roy Sambles experimental physicist and a former President of the Institute of Physics.[1]
Sambles, originally from
Imperial College, London, gaining his BSc and PhD degrees there, and has since published over 550 papers in international journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2002.[3]
Sambles is currently Professor of Experimental Physics at the
computer displays
, highly sensitive detection of materials (e.g. for medical diagnosis), and optical and microwave communication.
In 2008, he was appointed to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.[2]
Sambles was knighted in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to scientific research and outreach.[4]
Personal life
Roy Sambles and his wife, Sandra (née Sloman), had three children.[citation needed]
Sambles is a Methodist local preacher and has served in that capacity for over 30 years, preaching in the Ringsash Methodist Circuit in Mid Devon.[5]
Edited books
- 1998: (edited with Steve Elston) The Optics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals. London: Taylor & Francis ISBN 978-0-7484-0629-6
Awards
- 1998 - the George William Gray medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society.
- 2002 - Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- 2003 - Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics presented by the Institute of Physics.
- 2012 - Faraday Medal and Prize, "For his pioneering research in experimental condensed matter physics."
References
- ^ "New president-elect is announced". iop.org. The Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 17 August 2014.
- ^ Cornwall & Devon Media Ltd, City Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro, Cornwall TR1 1QH. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
- ^ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B2.
- ^ "Clarion Newsletter and Preaching Plan, Ringsash Methodist Circuit, March to May 2022" (PDF). Retrieved 5 September 2022.
External links
- Google scholar List of papers by JR Sambles
- The homepage of Professor Roy Sambles' Research Group
- Staff Biography at the University of Exeter