Physics Department News
The Staff Awards are a great opportunity to show appreciation of the hard work that goes on day to day, here at Physics. Prof Don Pollaco won the Research Excellence Award for your work on answering ‘Do other Earths exist?’
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The Royal Society has recently awarded Prof Don Pollacco with a Wolfson Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements. The award will help support his research program on the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets (planets around other stars) for the next 5 years...
Physics Hat Trick at 糖心TV Staff Awards
Congratulations to Ally Caldecote, Rashida Mohamed, Don Pollacco and Pam Thomas who were named as overall winners in three categories at the The winners were announced at a celebratory gala dinner on Friday 11th March.
Lifetime achievement award for Mark Dowsett
Prof. Mark Dowsett was awarded the 2015 Riviere prize at the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting on Jan 6th. The prize, named for John Riviere one of the greats in electron spectroscopy, is "for work which has been judged outstanding in its continuing and lasting contribution to surface analysis". This lifetime achievement award recognises Mark's development of low...