William Bonfield

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and Scholarship, fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK a ...

, FRS (born 6 March 1937) 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 geologi ...

, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

Life

He earned a BSc with

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, and PhD at

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 c ...

. He was a senior research scientist at the

Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...

Research Center from 1961 to 1968. He taught at

Queen Mary College , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

, becoming the chairman of the school of engineering, and dean of engineering. He was director of the University of London Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Biomedical Materials. In 1991 he was awarded the

A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize The A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize is awarded annually by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in commemoration of Alan Arnold Griffith. History The award was established by the Materials Science Club of Great Britain in 1965, two year ...

. He was professor of medical materials, at the

. He directed the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials, and the Pfizer Institute of Pharmaceutical Materials Science.Biography of William Bonfield
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References

External links

William Bonfield on Debrett's People of Today
William Bonfield is a current group member.
UCL
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonfield, William 1937 births British materials scientists Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Queen Mary University of London Academics of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Living people Commanders of the Order of the British Empire