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Authorised form of namePippard; Sir; Alfred Brian (1920 - 2008)
Dates1920 - 2008
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth07/09/1920
Date of death21/09/2008
ActivityEducation:
Clifton College Bristol; Clare College CAmbridge (1938)
Career:
Radar establishment at Great Malvern, becoming proficient in microwave techniques. Leader in the field of low emperature physics and semiconductors. In the 1950s Pippard demonstated the existence of the Fermis surface in reality, by establishing the shape of the surface in copper through measuring the reflection and absorption of microwave radiation.
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge (1960-1971); Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge (1971-1982); first President of Clare Hall, a newly founded graduate college (1966-1973); Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall (1987); Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall (1998)
Honours:
Kt 1975
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1956
Age at election35
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1963-1964
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1959
RelationshipsWife Charlotte and three daughters
Published worksElements of Classical Thermodynamics for Advanced Studies of Physics (1957); Cavendish Problems in Classical Physics (1962); Dynamics of Conduction Electrons (1962); Forces and Particles (1972); Magnetoresistance (1989)
SourcesReferences:
N R Ingram, 'All that you can't leave behind' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 177-184
B Pippard, 'Euclid and other popular romances. Such silver currents: the story of William and Lucy Clifford 1845-1929, by M Chisholm' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 252-253
B Pippard, 'A paragon of physics. <i>The man who changed everything - the life of James Clerk Maxwell</i> by Basil Mahon' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 103-104
Sir Brian Pippard FRS, 'David Shoenberg', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 379-397, plate
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/76377581
Royal Society codeNA3149
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/003591Pippard, Sir Alfred Brian1961
HWT/24/2/2Correspondence and papers regarding Royal Society policy subsequent to the Russian invasion of CzechoslovakiaAugust 1968 - December 1969
IM/GA/WRS/9367Pippard, Sir Alfred Briannd
RR/70/195Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on three papers 'The surface impedance of superconductors and normal metals at high frequencies. Part I, II, and III' by A. B. Pippard1947
EC/1956/17Pippard, Sir Alfred Brian: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/73/78Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The surface impedance of superconductors and normal metals at high frequencies. IV. Impedance at 9400 Mcyc/sec. of single crystals of normal and superconducting tin' by Alfred Brian Pippard1950
RR/73/79Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The surface impedance of superconductors and normal metals at high frequencies. V. Analysis of experimental results for superconducting tin' by Alfred Brian Pippard1950
RR/73/107Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'Field variation of the superconducting penetration depth' by Alfred Brian Pippard15 May 1950
RR/77/234Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'An experimental and theoretical study of the relation between magnetic field and current in a superconductor' Alfred Brian Pippard12 November 1952
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