Clifford Paterson Lecture Explained

Clifford Paterson Lecture
Awarded For:	Prize 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.

Not to be confused with the Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize.

Clifford Paterson Lectures

Lecturers include:^[3]

• 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 ^[4]
• 1990 Maurice Wilkes on Progress and research in the computer industry ^[4]
• 1991 David N. Payne on Circuits, sensors and strands of light^[4]
• 1992 Marcel Garnier on Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing^[4]
• 1993 I.R. Young on Accurate measurement in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?^[4]
• 1994 Michael Brady on Seeing machines and robots^[4]
• 1995 Frank Kelly on Modelling communication networks: present and future^[5]
• 1996 Martin Wood on Superconductivity: will the dream come true?^[4]
• 1997 Gareth Parry on From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics^[4]
• 1998 Colin Webb on Making light work: applications of high power lasers^[4]
• 1999 Andy Hopper on Progress and research in the communications industry^[4]
• 2000 Eli Yablonovitch on Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies^[4]
• 2001 Allan Snyder on Light guiding light in the new millennium^[4]
• 2002 Roger Needham on Computer Security?^[4]
• 2003 Chris Toumazou on The bionic man^[4]
• 2004 Sandu Popescu on What is quantum non-locality?^[4]
• 2005 Wilson Sibbett on Optical science in the fast lane^[4]
• 2006 Richard Friend on Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library ^[4]
• 2008 Martin Bodo Plenio, on Taming the Quanta^[4]
• 2009 Andrew DeMello on The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale ^[4]
• 2010 David MacKay on Information theory meets writing^[4]
• 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva on Carbon electronics^[4]
• 2012 Molly Stevens on Regenerating organs and other small challenges^[4]
• 2014 Polina Bayvel on Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics ^[4]
• 2016 Russell Cowburn for his remarkable academic, technical and commercial achievements in nano-magnetics
• 2018 Timothy Leighton for translation of his fundamental research into acoustics and its application in many areas ...
• 2020 Jacqui Cole for the development of photo-crystallography and the discovery of novel high-performance nonlinear optical materials and light-harvesting dyes using molecular design rules ^[6]
• 2022 Anne Neville for her innovative research into corrosion and tribology and the successful application of this to wide-ranging, real life, engineering problems

See also

• List of engineering awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Clifford Paterson Lecture (1975). The Royal Society. 2010-06-11.
2. Ryde . J. W. . Clifford Copland Paterson. 1879-1948 . 10.1098/rsbm.1949.0010 . . 6 . 18 . 479–501 . 1949 . 768937. free .
3. Web site: Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture. royalsociety.org. en-gb. 2018-03-27.
4. Web site: Clifford Paterson Lecture. The Royal Society. 2012-05-18.
5. Kelly . F. P. . The Clifford Paterson Lecture, 1995: Modelling Communication Networks, Present and Future . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A . 354 . 1707 . 437–463 . 10.1098/rsta.1996.0016 . 1996 . 1996RSPTA.354..437K . 60742941 .
6. Web site: Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture winner 2020. Royal Society. 5 October 2019.