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Professorial Fellow and Professor of Applied Physics
Professor John Field did his first degree at University College, London in Physics and then came to Cambridge (Downing College) to do a PhD in 1958. He was appointed a Research Fellow at Magdalene in 1964 and a full Fellow in 1966. He was awarded an OBE in 1987, made an Honorary Doctor at the University of Lulea, Sweden in 1989, awarded the Duddell Medal by the Institute of Physics in 1990 and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994. He is currently Deputy Head of Department at the Department of Physics and Head of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids Section of the Cavendish Laboratory. Professor Field 'escapes' from Cambridge each year for periods of research in Northern Sweden (University of Lulea) and Switzerland (EPF Lausanne).
Research Interests
Professor Field's research interests include the strength properties of solids, fracture growth, impact and erosion processes, explosive initiation, shock physics, high-speed photography and diamond properties. He heads the Fracture, Materials and High-Speed Photography Group in the Cavendish Laboratory. The Group's high-speed photography techniques are the best in Europe, with the capabilities of taking pictures at up to 20 million frames per second. Professor Field has edited and contributed two major texts on diamond physics: THE PROPERTIES OF THE DIAMOND (1979) and THE PROPERTIES OF SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL DIAMOND (1992).
Contact
Professor Field can be contacted by:
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