The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the

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now given biennially on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer. The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson, founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by the

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in 1975. Not to be confused with the

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Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize The Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 1981 and named after Clifford Copland Paterson. The prize is awarded each year for exceptional early career contributions to the application of p ...

Clifford Paterson Lectures

Lecturers include: * 1976 Eric Eastwood on ''Radar: new techniques and applications'' * 1977

Gordon Rawcliffe Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe FRS (2 June 1910 – 3 September 1979) was a British electrical engineer and academic. Life Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe, whose father was an Anglican clergyman in Sheffield, was born on 2 June 1910, moving from Sheffield to ...

on ''Induction motors: old and new'' * 1978

Eric Ash Sir Eric Albert Ash (31 January 1928 – 22 August 2021) was a British electrical engineer, past Rector of Imperial College and President of IEE, UK. He was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for in ...

on ''Recent advances in acoustic imaging'' * 1979 Gordon George Scarrott on ''From slave to servant: the evolution of computing systems'' * 1980 Derek Harry Roberts on ''Memory: its function, technology and impact'' * 1981

Cyril Hilsum Cyril Hilsum (born 17 May 1925) is a British physicist and academic. Hilsum was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for the inventiveness and leadership in introducing III- V semiconductors into electronic technol ...

on ''Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit'' * 1982

Michael Crowley-Milling Michael Crowley-Milling (7 May 1917 – 2012), known as Michael Crowley Crowley-Milling from 1947, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, CMG, Master of Arts, MA, C Eng, FIEE, was an engineering project manager, who did innovative wo ...

on ''The worlds largest accelerator: the electron-positron ''collider LEP'' * 1983

John Edwin Midwinter John Edwin Midwinter (8 March 1938 – 13 November 2021) was a British electrical engineer and professor, who was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET) from 2000 to 2001. Education He was educated at St Bartholomew's S ...

on ''Optical fibre communications, present and future'' * 1984

Alexander Lamb Cullen Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer and academic who was a professor at University College London. Career and research In 1955, Cullen was appointed as the first Professor of Elec ...

on ''Microwaves: the art and the science'' * 1985 George William Gray on ''Liquid crystals: an arena for research and industrial collaboration among chemists, physicists and engineers'' * 1986

Alec Nigel Broers Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers (born 17 September 1938) is a British electrical engineering, electrical engineer. In 1994 Broers was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to electronic beam li ...

on ''Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication'' * 1987

Gareth Gwyn Roberts Sir Gareth Gwyn Roberts (16 May 1940 – 6 February 2007) was a Welsh people, Welsh physicist specialising in semiconductors and molecular electronics, who was influential in British science policy through his chairmanship of several academic b ...

on ''At home with science and technology'' * 1988 Walter Thompson Welford on ''Microlithography and the ultraviolet: experiments with an excimer laser'' * 1989 Alan Walter Rudge on ''The organization and management of R&D in a privatised British Telecom'' * 1990

Maurice Wilkes Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored-program computers, and ...

on ''Progress and research in the computer industry'' * 1991 David N. Payne on ''Circuits, sensors and strands of light'' * 1992 Marcel Garnier on ''Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing'' * 1993 I.R. Young on ''Accurate measurement in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?'' * 1994 Michael Brady on ''Seeing machines and robots'' * 1995

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 ...

on
Modelling communication ''networks: present and future
' * 1996 Martin Wood on ''Superconductivity: will the dream come true?'' * 1997 Gareth Parry on ''From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics'' * 1998

Colin Webb Colin Webb may refer to: * Colin Webb (cricketer) (1926–2015), Australian cricketer * Colin Webb (historian) Professor Colin de Berri Webb (193022 March 1992) was a South African historian, activist, and university administrator, who promoted ...

on ''Making light work: applications of high power lasers'' * 1999

Andy Hopper Sir Andrew Hopper (born 9 May 1953) is a British-Polish computer technologist and entrepreneur. He is Chairman of lowRISC CIC, a Commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, former Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal S ...

on ''Progress and research in the communications industry'' * 2000

Eli Yablonovitch Eli Yablonovitch (born 15 December 1946) is an American physicist and engineer who, along with Sajeev John, founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987.M.Kapoor (2013Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures page 58 He and his team were the first ...

on ''Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies'' * 2001

Allan Snyder Allan Whitenack Snyder (born 1942) is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind. He is a co-founder of Emotiv Systems and winner of t ...

on ''Light guiding light in the new millennium'' * 2002

Roger Needham Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist. Early life and education Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, ''née'' Baker (''c''.1904–1976) and Leonard Wil ...

on ''Computer Security?'' * 2003

Chris Toumazou Christofer "Chris" Toumazou, CEng (, born 5 July 1961) is a British Cypriot electronic engineer. He is perhaps best known for inventing a fast and portable means of genome sequencing, following his 13-year-old son's diagnosis with end stage k ...

on ''The bionic man'' * 2004

Sandu Popescu Sandu Popescu (born 1956 in Oradea, Romania) is a Romanian-British physicist working in the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Education and career He studied with Yakir Aharonov, followed by postdoctoral research ...

on ''What is quantum non-locality?'' * 2005 Wilson Sibbett on ''Optical science in the fast lane'' * 2006

Richard Friend Sir Richard Henry Friend (born 18 January 1953) is a British physicist who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020 and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapo ...

on ''Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library '' * 2008

Martin Bodo Plenio Martin Bodo Plenio (born 20 May 1968) is a German physicist, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Ulm University. He is notable for his work on entanglement theory, quantum technology, hyperp ...

, on ''Taming the Quanta'' * 2009 Andrew DeMello on ''The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale'' * 2010 David MacKay on ''Information theory meets writing'' * 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva on ''Carbon electronics'' * 2012

Molly Stevens Dame Molly Morag Stevens is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. She is Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery and a member of the Depart ...

on ''Regenerating organs and other small challenges'' * 2014

Polina Bayvel Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has ...

on ''Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics'' * 2016

Russell Cowburn Russell may refer to: People * Russell (given name) * Russell (surname) * Lady Russell (disambiguation) * Lord Russell (disambiguation) ** Bertrand Russell * Justice Russell (disambiguation) Places * Russell Island (disambiguation) * Mount ...

''for his remarkable academic, technical and commercial achievements in nano-magnetics'' * 2018 Timothy Leighton ''for translation of his fundamental research into acoustics and its application in many areas ...'' * 2020 Jacqui Cole ''for the development of photo-crystallography and the discovery of novel high-performance nonlinear optical materials and light-harvesting dyes using molecular design rules'' * 2022

Anne Neville Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was List of English royal consorts , Queen of England from 26 June 1483 until her death in 1485 as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard N ...

''for her innovative research into corrosion and tribology and the successful application of this to wide-ranging, real life, engineering problems''

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Clifford Paterson Lectures

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