Clifford Paterson Lecture

The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society now given biennially on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer.^[1] The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson,^[2] founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by the General Electric Company plc in 1975.

Clifford Paterson Lectures

Source: Royal Society

• 1976 Eric Eastwood on Radar: new techniques and applications
• 1977 Gordon Rawcliffe on Induction motors: old and new
• 1978 Eric Ash 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 Hilsum 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 Cullen on Microwaves: the art and the science
• 1985 George William Gray 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 ^[3]
• 1990 Maurice Wilkes on Progress and research in the computer industry ^[3]
• 1991 David N. Payne on Circuits, sensors and strands of light^[3]
• 1992 Marcel Garnier on Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing^[3]
• 1993 I.R. Young on Accurate measurement in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?^[3]
• 1994 Michael Brady on Seeing machines and robots^[3]
• 1995 Frank Kelly on Modelling communication networks: present and future^[4]
• 1996 Martin Wood on Superconductivity: will the dream come true?^[3]
• 1997 Gareth Parry on From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics^[3]
• 1998 Colin Webb on Making light work: applications of high power lasers^[3]
• 1999 Andy Hopper on Progress and research in the communications industry^[3]
• 2000 Eli Yablonovitch on Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies^[3]
• 2001 Allan Snyder on Light guiding light in the new millennium^[3]
• 2002 Roger Needham on Computer Security?^[3]
• 2003 Chris Toumazou on The bionic man^[3]
• 2004 Sandu Popescu on What is quantum non-locality?^[3]
• 2005 Wilson Sibbett on Optical science in the fast lane^[3]
• 2006 Richard Friend on Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library ^[3]
• 2008 Martin Bodo Plenio, on Taming the Quanta^[3]
• 2009 Andrew DeMello on The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale ^[3]
• 2010 David MacKay on Information theory meets writing^[3]
• 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva on Carbon electronics^[3]
• 2012 Molly Stevens on Regenerating organs and other small challenges^[3]
• 2014 Polina Bayvel on Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics ^[3]
• 2015 Russell Cowburn for his remarkable academic, technical and commercial achievements in nano-magnetics

References

1. "The Clifford Paterson Lecture (1975)". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2010-06-11.
2. Ryde, J. W. (1949). "Clifford Copland Paterson. 1879-1948". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (18): 479. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1949.0010. JSTOR 768937.
3. "Clifford Paterson Lecture". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
4. Kelly, F. P. (1996). "The Clifford Paterson Lecture, 1995: Modelling Communication Networks, Present and Future". Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical. 354 (1707): 437–463. doi:10.1098/rsta.1996.0016.