Roy Sambles

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Professor John Roy Sambles FRS BSc PhD, is an English experimental physicist.

Sambles studied physics at Imperial College, London, gaining his BSc and PhD there, and has since published over 400 papers in international journals.

Sambles is currently Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Exeter, he has a long and distinguished career researching the interaction of light with matter. His group at Exeter have studied a wide range of systems including: liquid crystal devices; iridescent butterfly wings; surface plasmons and microwave photonics. These studies have applications in liquid crystal displays for televisions and computer displays, highly sensitive detection of materials (e.g. for medical diagnosis), and optical and microwave communication.

[edit] Awards

1998 - the George William Gray medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society.
2002 - Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
2003 - Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics presented by the Institute of Physics.