Michael Woolfson

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Michael Mark Woolfson (born 9 January 1927) is a British physicist.

Education: Jesus College, Oxford (MA; Hon. Fellow, 1999); UMIST (PhD, DSc).

[edit] Career

• Research Assistant: UMIST, 1950-52; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1952-54
• ICI Fellow, University of Cambridge, 1954-55
• Lecturer, 1955-61, Reader, 1961-65, UMIST
• Head of Department of Physics, 1982-87, University of York, now professor Emeritus.

He has researched, and published papers on, crystallography, computer simulation and the origin of the Solar System.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Institute of Physics.