Alec Broers, Baron Broers

Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers ( born September 17, 1938 in Calcutta, India) is a British researcher in the field of nanotechnology.

His family had a farm in the province of Victoria Australia. After receiving the B. Sc. - degree he went from there to the University of Cambridge to continue studying and obtaining the Ph.D. degree.

Shortly thereafter (ca. 1966), he joined the IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory in their in New York. His interests were almost exclusively to the research and development of electron devices for exposing wafers with semiconductor circuits.

In 1984 he returned to Cambridge as Professor of Electrical Engineering. There in 1990 he was Master of Churchill College (until 1996 ), 1993 Chairman of the Cambridge University Engineering Department. From 1996 to 2003 he was Vice- Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Knighted in 1998, he was in 2004 as Baron Broers, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire in the peerage for life raised (Life Peer ) and has since been a member of the British House of Lords. From 2001-2006 was president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.