Stuart Parkin

Stuart Parkin FRS ( born 1955 in Watford ) is a British experimental physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center.

Life

Parkin 1977, he received his BS in physics and theoretical physics at Trinity College, Cambridge University. In 1980 he received his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory. Then he worked for two years at the Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship at the University of Paris-Sud, before joining the Research Center of IBM in 1982. Originally he worked on superconductors and examined organic and ceramic high- temperature superconductors.

Later he conducted research on thin film magnetic structures and made important contributions to the understanding of the GMR effect. For this work, Parkin received the American Physical Society International New Materials Prize in 1994 and the European Physical Society Hewlett -Packard EUR Physics Prize in 1997, the latter two prices together with the later Nobel Prize winners Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the work on the GMR effect of the latter was discovered in 1988 and was implemented by Stuart Parkin and colleagues in concrete applications mainly. All three also got together in 2007 an honorary doctorate at the RWTH Aachen. November 25, 2008 Parkin received the Gutenberg Research Award of the Johannes Gutenberg - University Mainz. The Materials Research Network Dresden, together with other partners, gave Parkin 2009 Dresden Barkhausen Award. Also in 2009, Stuart Parkin received on 27 July one of the highest awards in the field of exploration of magnetism: he was awarded in Karlsruhe with the " International Union of Pure and Applied Physics magnetism Award" ( IUPAP ) and the Louis Neel Medal. On 20 December 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Regensburg. In 2012 he was awarded the Von Hippel Award. On 3 June 2013, the program of the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern awarded an honorary doctorate. Also in 2013 he was awarded the Swan Medal of the Institute of Physics.

Previously Parkin was appointed IBM Fellow in 1999, and in 2000 a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2011 a Fellow of the Gutenberg Research College.

Use a concrete possibility of the GMR effect, inter alia, in a sensor for a magnetic field ( and thus as a new type of read head in a computer disk), which was recognized implicitly by the above two Nobel laureates, was mainly due to a IBM research team, Stuart Parkin realized very quickly, with Parkin primarily investigated the oscillatory dependence of the width of the magnetic layer. He replicated the effect with polycrystalline layers. IBM introduced in December 1997 produced the first commercial drive that took advantage of this effect.

In recent years (2010, 2011), Parkin primarily concerned with the so-called Racetrack memory, a novel based on magneto-electronics storage medium that he himself has designed and promoted since 2008 at IBM.

2014 it is to be appointed to a professorship at the Humboldt - Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. The appeal for the Humboldt Professorship is carried out together with the offer to become director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle.

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