Cyril Hilsum
Cyril Hilsum ( born May 17, 1925) is a British physicist and applied electronics.
Life
Hilsum studied at University College London with a bachelor's degree and then did research in 1945 for the Royal Navy, from 1947 in the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from 1950 when SERL ( Services Electronics Research Laboratory) and from 1964 at the Royal Radar Establishment. Most recently he was Chief Scientific Officer at the Defense before the research director at the GEC Hirst Research Centre was established in 1983.
1988 to 1990 he was president of the Institute of Physics. He's in the Defense Scientific Advisory Council in the UK. He was a consultant to various companies such as Cambridge Display Technology, GEC and Unilever and the European Commission and Chairman of the Scientific Board at Peratech. He was a visiting professor at Imperial College.
He developed with Brian Kidd Ridley and Tom Watkins, the Ridley - Watkins - Hilsum theory of the Gunn diode. He made important contributions to the technology of liquid crystal display (LCD ), where he headed the British national program for LCD development, dealt with applications of gallium arsenide semiconductors, infrared optics and built the first solid-state lasers in the UK.
The -driven program in which he is responsible patents for LCD materials brought by the British government royalties of more than 100 million pounds.
Honors and Memberships
The British Liquid Crystal Society awards a prize named after him.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1979) and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is an honorary member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Physics ( 2001). He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University. He is also Honorary Fellow of University College London, University College of North Wales ( UCNW ) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ( UMIST ).
In 1990 he was CBE.
Private
His daughter Lindsay Hilsum (born 1958 ) is a journalist newspaper and television journalist for Channel 4 in the memory of his deceased daughter Karen, an engineer, he donated a prize for female engineers ( Karen Burt Memorial Award).
Writings
- Semiconducting III- V Compounds, Elsevier 1961
- Liquid Crystals, Cambridge University Press 1985
- Editor with T. Moss Device Physics, Handbook on Semiconductors, Volume 4, JAI Press 1993
- Publisher of THE Davies, AW Rudge Communications After AD 2000, Chapman and Hall 1993