Clifford Paterson Lecture

The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society given annually on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer.^[1] The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson (1879-1948), founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by General Electric in 1975.

Clifford Paterson Lectures

• 1976 Eric Eastwood on Radar: new techniques and applications
• 1977 Gordon Rawcliffe on Induction motors: old and new
• 1978 Eric Ash on Recent advances in acoustic imaging
• 1979 Gordon George Scarrott on From slave to servant: the evolution of computing systems
• 1980 Derek Harry Roberts on Memory: its function, technology and impact
• 1981 Cyril Hilsum on Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit
• 1982 Michael Crowley-Milling on The worlds largest accelerator: the electron-positron collider LEP
• 1983 John Edwin Midwinter on Optical fibre communications, present and future
• 1984 Alexander Lamb Cullen on Microwaves: the art and the science
• 1985 George William Gray on Liquid crystals: an arena for research and industrial collaboration among chemists, physicists and engineers
• 1986 Alec Nigel Broers on Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication
• 1987 Gareth Gwyn Roberts on At home with science and technology
• 1988 Walter Thompson Welford on Microlithography and the ultraviolet: experiments with an excimer laser
• 1989 Alan Walter Rudge on The organization and management of R&D in a privatised British Telecom
• 1990 Maurice Wilkes on Progress and research in the computer industry
• 1991 David N. Payne on Circuits, sensors and strands of light
• 1992 Marcel Garnier on Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing
• 1993 I.R. Young on Accurate measurement in in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?
• 1994 Michael Brady on Seeing machines and robots
• 1995 Frank Kelly on Modelling communication networks: present and future
• 1996 Martin Wood on Superconductivity: will the dream come true?
• 1997 Gareth Parry on From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics
• 1998 Colin Webb on Making light work: applications of high power lasers
• 1999 Andy Hopper on Progress and research in the communications industry
• 2000 Eli Yablonovitch on Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies
• 2001 Allan Snyder on Light guiding light in the new millennium
• 2002 Roger Needham on Computer Security?
• 2003 Chris Toumazou on The bionic man
• 2004 Sandu Popescu on What is quantum non-locality?
• 2005 Wilson Sibbett on Optical science in the fast lane
• 2006 Richard Friend on Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library
• 2008 Martin Plenio, on Taming the Quanta
• 2009 Andrew DeMello
• 2010 David MacKay
• 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva for his outstanding contributions to basic science and engineering in the field of carbon nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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