Person Ward; Ian Macmillan (1928 - 2018) Ward Ian Macmillan 1928 - 2018 British Male Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England 09/04/1928 19280409 05/11/2018 20181105

Physicist Ian Ward was Emeritus Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and Visiting Professor at the University of Bradford. He was the first Director of the Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre (made up of Leeds, Bradford, Durham and Sheffield universities) and had been Chairman of the School of Physics and Astronomy and Cavendish Professor at Leeds. He maintained many industrial collaborations and had been Managing Director of several University of Leeds spin-off companies. These included Vantage Polymers for single polymer self-reinforced composites, die-drawn ropes and tubes, and Leeds Lithium Power for thermoreversible, ionically conducting polymer gel electrolytes. Ian published 700 peer-reviewed journal articles, 6 text books and 20 key patents, served as Editor of the journal Polymer, and sat on the Advisory Board of several journals. He received awards from the Institute of Physics (C. V. Boys Prize and Glazebrook Medal), the Institute of Materials (Griffith, Swinburne, and Netlon medals) and other institutions (an honorary DSc from Bradford and the Staudinger–Durrer Prize from ETH Zurich in 2013). Fellow 17/03/1983 54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Ward_(physicist) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 9 Apr 1928 - 5 Nov 2018 NA4308 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 1c2aeb91-0c26-4348-8dc1-1a49c34a59f4