David J. Lockwood is a Canadian physicist and Principal Research Officer at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). He is also Adjunct Professor at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Editor of the journal Solid State Communications, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Physicists. Lockwood is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Physical Society, and the Electrochemical Society.
| David J. Lockwood | |
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| Residence | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Fields | Condensed Matter Physics |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo, National Research Council of Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury, University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | Alister McLellan |
| Known for | Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures |
| Notable awards | Brockhouse Medal (2005), Tory Medal (2005) |
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Lockwood was inspired to pursue physics at an early age by his high school teacher, Henry Dyer. He subsequently completed a B.Sc. (1964), M.Sc. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) in Physics at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His doctoral work, under Professor Alister McLellan, focused on Raman scattering from insulators.
Between 1970-71, Lockwood undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Waterloo with Professor Donald Irish, where he investigated the vibrational spectroscopy of solvated cations. He then spent six years as a research fellow at Edinburgh University, looking at the dynamical properties of structural phase transitions and antiferromagnets. These studies culminated in a DSc degree in physics from Edinburgh University (1978).
In 1978, Lockwood moved to Canada to work at the National Research Council, where his continued work on antiferromagnets led to the publication of what would become a seminal book in the field, Light Scattering in Magnetic Solids, co-written with Michael Cottam. He has since turned his attention to the optical properties of superlattices, semiconductor heterostructures, and nanostructures, publishing some 550 papers and 22 books, as well as registering 8 patents. Lockwood has edited numerous scientific volumes, notably the Nanostructure Science and Technology series, and served on the editorial boards of several journals, such as Low Temperature Physics, Physica E, and Physics in Canada. He has likewise organised international conferences and served on over 50 committees, including within NATO and IUPAP. [1]