Alan Hardwick Windle (born 20 June 1942) FRS is a British

material scientist Material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their geologica ...

, and Chair of Materials Science at

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He earned a BSc from

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, and a PhD from

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He was a lecturer in materials science from 1975 to 1992, and Fellow of

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. In 1997 he was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

Works

*''A First Course in Crystallography'' 1978 *''Liquid Crystalline Polymers'' with Prof A M Donald, 1992; with Dr S Hanna and Prof A M Donald, 2006

References

External links

*http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/department/material_eyes.php *https://web.archive.org/web/20120406033938/http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/polymer/pub.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Windle, Alan Hardwick 1942 births British materials scientists Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Living people