Mr Richard Neill

Mr Richard Neill is a College Lecturer in Natural Sciences (Physical) at Magdalene. He teaches physics, electronics, and computing within the Natural Sciences tripos.

Richard studied Natural Sciences at Trinity, specialising in Phyiscs, and then gained an Mphil in Engineering on the topic of Silicon Nanowires. He has supervised in physics for 10 years, originally at Trinity and now at Magdalene, and particularly enjoys teaching, especially when it is possible to give demonstrations of the various effects, and explain the science behind them: he is a great fan of Feynman’s approach to developing physical “intuition” first, and then doing the mathematics.

Richard’s other interests are in music (choral and improvisation), and in engineering model aircraft. Richard owns a Wimshurst machine, and aspires to obtain a Crookes’ Radiometer that doesn’t run backwards (one that is genuinely driven by the momentum of photons, rather than dominant thermal effects).

Qualifications

• MA
• MSci
• MPhil (Cantab)