Peter John Dornan
FRS (born 1939) is a British
physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
, and professor at
Imperial College London
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.
On 18 September 2009, a
festschrift
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was held in his honor. Dornan was awarded the
Rutherford Medal and Prize
The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications. It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for PhD thesis submissions.
Bilateral awards
* The Max B ...
in 2002.
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References
External links
Google Scholar
1939 births
British physicists
Academics of Imperial College London
Fellows of the Royal Society
Living people
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