Cyril Hilsum

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Prof. Cyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng DEng CPhys HonFInstP (born 1925) is a British scientist, with a long career in solid-state physics and semiconductors.

He was schooled at Raine's Foundation School in London. He obtained a BSc and PhD from University College London.

1 Career
2 Honours
3 Personal
4 Bibliography
5 External links

[edit] Career

Admiralty Research Laboratories 1947-1950
Services Electronics Research Laboratory (SERL) 1950-1964.
Royal Radar Establishment 1964-1983.
Director of Research at GEC from 1983-1992.

Whilst working for the Ministry of Defence Cyril Hilsum was instrumental in the development of gallium arsenide as a semiconductor material. Applications of GaAs included transistors and lasers. He was involved in the use of indium antimonide as an infrared detector material, and carried out early work on flat-panel displays (LCDs).

Cyril Hilsum is a trustee of the Rank Prize Fund (for optoelectronics). He has served as corporate research adviser for the European Commission, Unilever and Cambridge Display Technology.

[edit] Honours

Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering (for introducing III-V semiconductors into electronic technology),
Fellow of the Royal Society (1979)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1978)
Fellow of the IEEE
Max Born Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 1987
Faraday Medal from the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1988
He was awarded the CBE in 1990
Honorary DEng from Sheffield University in 1992
Glazebrook Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 1997,
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2001

[edit] Personal

Hilsum's daughter, Karen Burt, died in 1997. He has endowed an award for young female engineers in her name.

[edit] Bibliography

Semiconducting III-V Compounds (Monographs on Semiconductors), C. Hilsum, 239 pages, Publ. Elsevier (1961), ISBN 0-08-009499-6
Liquid Crystals, C. Hilsum, Cambridge Univ Press (1985), ISBN 0-521-30465-2
Device Physics (Vol 4 of Handbook on Semiconductors), C. Hilsum and T.S. Moss (Editors), 1244 pages, Publ. JAI Press (1993) ISBN 0-444-88813-6
Communications After AD2000, C. Hilsum, D.E.N. Davies, A.W. Rudge (Editors), Chapman & Hall, (1993), ISBN 0-412-49550-3