David Phillip Woodruff FRS is a British physicist, professor at University of Warwick,[1] and member of the Surface, Interface & Thin Films group.[2]
Woorduff is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and the Woodruff Thesis prize is named in his honour.[3] He won the Nevill Mott Medal and Prize in 2003,[4] and Max Born Medal and Prize in 2011.
He earned a B.Sc. from University of Bristol in 1965, and a Ph.D.(1968), and D.Sc. (1983) from Warwick University.He formally retired in 2011 [5] but remains research active as an emeritus professor.