The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the

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now given biennially on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer. The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson, founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by the

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in 1975. Not to be confused with the

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Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize The Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 1981 and named after Clifford Copland Paterson. The prize is awarded each year for exceptional early career contributions to the application of ...

Clifford Paterson Lectures

Lecturers include: * 1976 Eric Eastwood on ''Radar: new techniques and applications'' * 1977 Gordon Rawcliffe on ''Induction motors: old and new'' * 1978

Eric Ash Sir Eric Albert Ash (31 January 1928 – 22 August 2021) was a British electrical engineer, past Rector of Imperial College and President of IEE, UK. He was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for i ...

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 John Edwin Midwinter OBE FRS FREng (8 March 1938 – 13 November 2021) was a British electrical engineer and professor, who was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET) from 2000 to 2001. Education He was educated at St ...

on ''Optical fibre communications, present and future'' * 1984

Alexander Lamb Cullen Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer. Career and research Cullen served as the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London where he hel ...

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'' * 1990 Maurice Wilkes on ''Progress and research in the computer industry'' * 1991

David N. Payne Sir David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng (born 13 August 1944) is a British professor of photonics who is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre ...

on ''Circuits, sensors and strands of light'' * 1992 Marcel Garnier on ''Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing'' * 1993 I.R. Young on ''Accurate measurement in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?'' * 1994 Michael Brady on ''Seeing machines and robots'' * 1995

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 ...

on
Modelling communication ''networks: present and future
' * 1996 Martin Wood on ''Superconductivity: will the dream come true?'' * 1997 Gareth Parry on ''From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics'' * 1998

Colin Webb Colin Edward Webb (born 9 December 1937) is a British physicist and former professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in lasers. Education Webb was educated at the University of Nottingham (BSc) and Oriel College, Oxford (DPhil). C ...

on ''Making light work: applications of high power lasers'' * 1999

Andy Hopper Sir Andrew Hopper (born 1953) is a British-Polish Computer Technologist and entrepreneur. He is treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society, Professor of Computer Technology, former Head of the University of Cambridge Department of Compu ...

on ''Progress and research in the communications industry'' * 2000

Eli Yablonovitch Eli Yablonovitch (born 15 December 1946) is an American physicist and engineer who, along with Sajeev John founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987.M.Kapoor (2013Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures page 58 He and his team were the first t ...

on ''Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies'' * 2001

Allan Snyder Allan Whitenack Snyder (born 1942) is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind. He is a co-founder of Emotiv Systems and winner of th ...

on ''Light guiding light in the new millennium'' * 2002

Roger Needham Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist. Early life and education Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, ''née'' Baker (''c''.1904–1976) and Leonard Wi ...

on ''Computer Security?'' * 2003

Chris Toumazou Christofer "Chris" Toumazou, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FIET, FIEEE, FCGI, FRSM, CEng ( el, Χριστόφορος Τουμάζου, born 5 July 1961) is a British Cypriot electronic engineer. In 2013 he became London's first Regius Profe ...

on ''The bionic man'' * 2004

Sandu Popescu Sandu Popescu (born 1956 in Oradea, Romania) is a Romanian-British physicist working in the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Career and research Popescu has been Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol sinc ...

on ''What is quantum non-locality?'' * 2005 Wilson Sibbett on ''Optical science in the fast lane'' * 2006

Richard Friend Sir Richard Henry Friend (born 18 January 1953) is a British physicist who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020 and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Sing ...

on ''Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library '' * 2008 Martin Bodo Plenio, on ''Taming the Quanta'' * 2009

Andrew DeMello Andrew James deMello (born 1970 in Kingsbury, United Kingdom) is a British chemist and Professor of Biochemical Engineering at ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Education deMello was born in London, and spent his formative ...

on ''The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale'' * 2010 David MacKay on ''Information theory meets writing'' * 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva on ''Carbon electronics'' * 2012 Molly Stevens on ''Regenerating organs and other small challenges'' * 2014

Polina Bayvel Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (russian: link=no, Полина Леопольдовна Байвель; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Elec ...

on ''Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics'' * 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 Jacqueline Manina Cole is the Head of the Molecular Engineering group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers the design of functional materials for optoelectronic applications. Early life and educatio ...

''for the development of photo-crystallography and the discovery of novel high-performance nonlinear optical materials and light-harvesting dyes using molecular design rules'' * 2022

Anne Neville Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the "Kingmaker"). Before her marriage to Ric ...

''for her innovative research into corrosion and tribology and the successful application of this to wide-ranging, real life, engineering problems''

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Clifford Paterson Lectures

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