| Andrew Taylor | |
| Birth Name: | Andrew Dawson Taylor |
| Birth Place: | Falkirk |
| Workplaces: | Science and Technology Facilities Council ISIS neutron source |
| Education: | Denny High School |
| Alma Mater: | University of Glasgow (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis Title: | Inelastic neutron scattering by chemical rate processes |
| Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.474621 |
| Thesis Year: | 1976 |
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| Awards: | Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize (2006) |
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Andrew Dawson Taylor [1] (born 1950) was director of the Science and Technology Facilities Council National Laboratories – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,[2] [3] Daresbury Laboratory, and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh[1] [4] until his retirement in 2019.[5]
Taylor was educated at Denny High School, the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford where he was a postgraduate student of St John's College, Oxford. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research using inelastic neutron scattering.[6]
Taylor's research interests are in neutron science, neutron sources[4] and neutron scattering, he is recognised as an international leader in the development of large-scale research facilities and their infrastructures.[1]
Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[7] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours[8] [9] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to science and technology. He was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2006.[10] He was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2006.