D. Phil Woodruff

David Philip Woodruff, Phil Woodruff or DP Woodruff quoted, ( born December 5, 1944 in the Region Manchester ) is a British experimental solid state physicist who in particular is concerned with the study of surfaces with synchrotron radiation.

Life

Woodruff attended the Manchester Grammar School, studied physics at the University of Bristol in 1965 and his doctorate at the newly founded University of Warwick John Forty, where he has since remained and became a professor.

At first, he dealt with LEED spectroscopy. In 1986 he began in collaboration with Alexander M. Bradshaw at the Fritz Haber Institute in experiments at BESSY to deal with synchrotron radiation for investigation of surfaces, for example, the structure of molecule - absorbates on metal surfaces. Among the developed techniques he heard the photoelectron diffraction ( PhD, scanned - energy mode photoelectron diffraction ), with Bradshaw, where information on the chemical structure of the scattering centers are obtained on the surface from the interference of a photoelectron with scattered by elastic around electrons. Another advanced technology he is XSW (x -ray standing waves, see X-ray fluorescence analysis). and especially NIXSW (normal incidence x -ray standing wave field absorption ), in which use is made of that absorption of X-rays, depending on the position near the abdomen or nodes of the standing wave varies by molecules. He worked at many synchrotron radiation sources worldwide, but especially in Berlin ( BESSY ) and Daresbury (Cheshire ).

Prizes and awards

In 1994 he received the Max Planck Research Prize together with Alexander Bradshaw. In 2003 he received the Mott Medal and in 2000 the Medard W. Welch Award .. In 2011 he was awarded the Max Born Prize for his pioneering work in the development of experimental techniques for the quantitative determination of surface structures that provide new insights into a number of surfaces phenomena delivered. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Writings

  • With TA DelChar: Modern techniques of surface science, 1986, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press 1994.
  • The solid -liquid interface, Cambridge University Press 1973
  • Publisher: Surface Dynamics, Elsevier 2003
  • Publisher: Atomic clusters: from gas phase to Deposited, Elsevier 2007
  • Published by DA King The Chemical physics of solid surfaces and heterogeneous catalysis, 9 volumes, Elsevier from 1981
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