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Emeritus Professor Haroon Ahmed
Emeritus Professor Paul Alexander
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Dr. Bill Allison
Specialities:
Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture
Dr. Richard Ansorge
Specialities:
Biological and Soft Systems
Dr. Richard Batley
Specialities:
High Energy Physics
Emeritus Professor Mick Brown
Specialities:
Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Thin Film Magnetism
Emeritus Professor Janet Carter
Specialities:
High Energy Physics
Dr. M. Munawar Chaudhri
Emeritus Professor John Cooper
Specialities:
Quantum Matter
Emeritus Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE, FRS
Specialities:
Biological and Soft Systems
Dr. Peter Duffett-Smith
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Emeritus Professor Stephen Gull
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Emeritus Professor Volker Heine FRS
Specialities:
Theory of Condensed Matter
Emeritus Professor Archie Howie FRS
Specialities:
Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture
Dr. Howard Hughes
Emeritus Professor Brian Josephson FRS
Specialities:
Theory of Condensed Matter
Emeritus Professor David Khmelnitskii
Specialities:
Theory of Condensed Matter
Emeritus Professor Anthony Lasenby
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Professor Malcolm Longair CBE, FRS, FRSE
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Emeritus Professor Gilbert Lonzarich
Specialities:
Quantum Matter
Professor Richard Needs
Specialities:
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dr. Rachael Padman
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Professor Sir Michael Pepper
Specialities:
Semiconductor Physics
Professor John S Richer
Specialities:
Astrophysics
Emeritus Professor David Ward
Specialities:
High Energy Physics
Emeritus Professor Bryan Webber
Specialities:
High Energy Physics
Emeritus Professor Stafford Withington
Specialities:
Quantum Sensors
