Donald Perkins#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1217 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Donald Perkins passed away October 30, 2022.
Positions Held
- 1998 Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
- 1983 - 1984 CERN
- 1976 - 1977 CERN
- 1965 Professor of elementary particle physics, University of Oxford
- 1963 - 1964 CERN
- 1956 Reader, Bristol University
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear interactions at extreme energies
- Particle physics
Honours and Awards
- Honorary doctorates in Bristol and the University of Sheffield
- 1966 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1979 Guthrie Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
- 1992 Holweck Prize of the Société Française de Physique
- 1997, Royal Medal of the Royal Society
- 2001 the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society
- 2004 Wolfgang Paul Lecture in Bonn
