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Gareth Roberts (other)
Gareth Roberts may refer to: *Gareth Roberts (physicist) (1940–2007), British physicist, engineer, and President of Wolfson College, Oxford *Gareth Roberts (rugby union) (born 1959), Welsh rugby player *Gareth Roberts (writer) (born 1968), British television writer *Gareth Roberts (footballer) (born 1978), Welsh football player *Gareth Roberts (statistician) (born 1964), British professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology at University of Warwick *Gareth Roberts (co-driver) (1987–2012), Welsh rally co-driver *Gareth Roberts (politician), British politician See also *Garreth Roberts (born 1960), English footballer {{hndis, name=Roberts, Gareth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Roberts (physicist)
Sir Gareth Gwyn Roberts (16 May 1940 – 6 February 2007) was a Welsh physicist specialising in semiconductors and molecular electronics, who was influential in British science policy through his chairmanship of several academic bodies and his two reports on the future supply of scientists and how university research should be assessed. He was knighted in 1997 for his services to higher education. Academic and public service career Born in Penmaenmawr, Caernarvonshire, North Wales, he studied physics to PhD level at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, graduating in 1964. Following a post at the New University of Ulster, he was appointed Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Durham in 1976, where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He went back into industry in 1985 as director of research at Thorn EMI plc, and was appointed to a visiting professorship in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford and to a Fellowship at Brasenos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |