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 Sir Clifford Copland Paterson FRS (1879–1948) was an English scientist and electrical engineer. He was educated at Mill Hill School, the Finsbury Technical College, and Faraday House. He joined the newly established National Physical Laborat ...

, 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 p ...

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 ...

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 Michael Crowley-Milling (7 May 1917 – 2012), known as Michael Crowley Crowley-Milling from 1947, CMG, MA, C Eng, FIEE, was a talented and successful engineering project manager, who did innovative work in accelerator design and large-scale ...

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 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 Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers, (born 17 September 1938) is a British electrical engineer. In 1994 Broers was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to electronic beam lithography and microsc ...

on ''Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication'' * 1987

Gareth Gwyn Roberts 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 hi ...

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 Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who ...

on ''Progress and research in the computer industry'' * 1991 David N. Payne 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 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 on ''Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies'' * 2001 Allan Snyder on ''Light guiding light in the new millennium'' * 2002 Roger Needham on ''Computer Security?'' * 2003 Chris Toumazou 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 since ...

on ''What is quantum non-locality?'' * 2005 Wilson Sibbett on ''Optical science in the fast lane'' * 2006 Richard Friend 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 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 Molly Morag Stevens is Professor of Biomedical Materials and regenerative medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.

on ''Regenerating organs and other small challenges'' * 2014 Polina Bayvel on ''Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics'' * 2016

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''for his remarkable academic, technical and commercial achievements in nano-magnetics'' * 2018

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''for translation of his fundamental research into acoustics and its application in many areas ...'' * 2020 Jacqui Cole ''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 Ri ...

''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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