Paul Attfield
| Paul Attfield FRS FRSE FRSC | |
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 Paul Attfield at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015 | |
| Born |
John Paul Attfield 27 July 1962 Birmingham[1] |
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| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Thesis | The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Anthony Cheetham Peter Battle[2] |
| Doctoral students | |
| Notable awards |
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Website www | |
(John) Paul Attfield (born 1962)[1] FRS[7] is a Professor of Materials Science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).[8][9][10]
Education
Attfield was educated at the University of Oxford where he was a member of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography supervised by Anthony Cheetham and Peter Battle.[2]
Career and research
Following his DPhil, Attfield was a Lecturer, and later a Reader at the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 2003.[6] Attfield's research[11][12][13][14][15][16] focuses on synthesis, structural studies, and property measurements for electronic materials such as transition metal oxides.[17][18][19][20][21] His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[22] He has also made significant contributions to the study of the Verwey transition in magnetite, solving its charge ordering properties and has supervised numerous PhD students[3][4][5] and postdoctoral researchers in his laboratory.[10]
Awards and honours
Attfield won the Meldola Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1991; the Corday-Morgan Medal of the RSC in 1998; and the Peter Day Award in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[7] His nomination reads:
| “ | Paul Attfield has made distinctive contributions to the experimental understanding of structure in the solid-state, in particular pioneering the use of resonant X-ray scattering to study cation and valence ordering effects and characterizing charge-order in strongly correlated systems such as magnetite. He introduced the cation-size variance as a concept to rationalize and predict disorder effects, with a substantial impact on the study and preparation of technologically important materials. He has synthesized and characterized new materials with novel electronic properties, including high-Tc superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and negative thermal expansion, including new developments in high pressure synthesis.[23] | ” |
References
- 1 2 ATTFIELD, Prof. (John) Paul. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- 1 2 Attfield, John Paul (1987). The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863504840.
- 1 2 Carlsson, Sandra J. E. (2009). Experimental studies of spin, charge and orbital order at extreme conditions (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/3169.
- 1 2 Chen, Wei-tin (2009). Synthesis, structural and property studies of bismuth containing perovskites (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/3861.
- 1 2 Penny, George B. S. (2010). High-pressure synthesis of electronic materials (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/4161.
- 1 2 Anon (2013). "Peter Day Award 2013 Winner Professor J. Paul Attfield". rsc.org. Royal Society of Chemistry. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- 1 2 "J Paul Attfield". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ Paul Attfield's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
- 1 2 Anon (2017). "Professor J Paul Attfield FRS". chem.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 2017-04-27.
- ↑ Senn, Mark S.; Wright, Jon P.; Attfield, J. Paul (2011). "Charge order and three-site distortions in the Verwey structure of magnetite". Nature. 481 (7380): 173–176. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22190035. doi:10.1038/nature10704.
- ↑ Mclaughlin, A. C.; Sher, F.; Attfield, J. P. (2005). "Retraction: Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity–antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides". Nature. 437 (7061): 1057–1057. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 16222303. doi:10.1038/nature04182.
- ↑ Chen, W. T.; Mizumaki, M; Seki, H; Senn, M. S.; Saito, T; Kan, D; Attfield, J. P.; Shimakawa, Y (2014). "A half-metallic A- and B-site-ordered quadruple perovskite oxide CaCu3Fe2Re2O12 with large magnetization and a high transition temperature". Nature Communications. 5: 3909. PMID 24849185. doi:10.1038/ncomms4909.
- ↑ Rodriguez-Martinez, L.; Attfield, J.P. (1996). "Cation disorder and size effects in magnetoresistive manganese oxide perovskites". Physical Review B. 54 (22): R15622. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.R15622.
- ↑ McLaughlin, A.; Zhou, W.; Attfield, J. P.; Fitch, A.; Tallon, J. (1999). "Structure and microstructure of the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr₂GdCu₂O₈". Physical Review B. 60 (10): 7512–7516. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.60.7512.
- ↑ Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. P.; Radaelli, P. G. (2001). "Long Range Charge Ordering in Magnetite Below the Verwey Transition". Physical Review Letters. 87 (26). Bibcode:2001PhRvL..87z6401W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.266401.
- ↑ Wright, J. P.; Attfield, J. Paul; Radaelli, P. G. (2002). "Charge ordered structure of magnetite Fe₃O₄ below the Verwey transition". Physical Review B. 66 (21). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.214422.
- ↑ Rodríguez-Martínez, L.; Attfield, J. Paul (2000). "Disorder-induced orbital ordering in L0.7M0.3MMnO3 perovskites". Physical Review B. 63 (2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.63.024424.
- ↑ Attfield, J. P. (1998). "A Simple Approach to Lattice Effects in Conducting Perovskite-Type Oxides". Chemistry of Materials. 10 (11): 3239–3248. doi:10.1021/cm980221s.
- ↑ Rodriguez-Martinez, L.; Attfield, J. (1998). "Cation disorder and the metal-insulator transition temperature in manganese oxide perovskites". Physical Review B. 58 (5): 2426–2429. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.58.2426.
- ↑ Attfield, J. P. (2011). "Condensed-matter physics: A fresh twist on shrinking materials". Nature. 480 (7378): 465–6. PMID 22193098. doi:10.1038/480465a.
- ↑ "UK Government Research Grants awarded to Paul Attfield by the EPSRC". gow.epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29.
- ↑ Anon (2014). "Professor Paul Attfield FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-16.