Prof Bill Stirling awarded the IOP President's Medal
Professor Stirling receives the medal from Professor Dame Julia Higgins, the IOP President. Photo IOP, www.iop.org
ILL former director, Bill Stirling, has just been received a prestigious scientific award: the Institute of Physics President's Medal,
"For services to physics, especially in the application of X-ray and neutron scattering, and in particular for his contributions at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and at the Institut Laue-Langevin, the French-German-British high-flux reactor centre, both in Grenoble." He received the medal from Professor Dame Julia Higgins, the IOP President.
This rewards a lifetime dedicated to science. Bill Stirling’s research activities have ranged across magnetic structure and excitations, magnetic thin
films and multilayers, the dynamics of liquid 4He and liquid 3He, and synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering techniques.
In parallel with his academic research he conceived, designed and supervised the construction of advanced instrumentation for neutron inelastic scattering at ILL and for
X-ray scattering at universities and ESRF (the UK-CRG, XMaS).
Our warmest congratulations, Bill!
More on the IOP website.
