Roy Sambles
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John Roy Sambles, FRS is an English experimental physicist.
Sambles, originally from Callington in Cornwall,[1] 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.
In 2008 he was appointed to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.[1]
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[edit] Authored Books
- The Optics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals by Steve Elston and Roy Sambles (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1998, London) ISBN 9780748406296
[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.
[edit] References
- ^ a b SCIENCE FUNDING HONOUR. This is Cornwall. Cornwall & Devon Media Ltd, City Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro, Cornwall TR1 1QH.. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
[edit] External links
- Google scholar List of papers by JR Sambles
- Contact details for Prof Roy Sambles
- The homepage of Professor Roy Sambles' Research Group
