Tom Kibble#
| Email: | t.kibble 'at' imperial.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Username: | tkibble |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998- Emeritus Professor & Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College London
- 1980 FRS
- 1970-98 Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London
- 1961- Lecturer, Imperial College London
- 1958 PhD Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- quantum field theory and cosmology, especially symmetry breaking and topological defects
Honours and Awards
- J.J. Sakurai Prize, American Physical Society, 2010
- CBE, H M The Queen, 1998
- Mentoring lifetime achievement award, NESTA/Nature, 2005
- Guthrie Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, 1993
- Rutherford Medal and Prize (jointly), Institute of Physics, 1984
- Hughes Medal (jointly), Royal Society, 1981
- Member, Society for General Relativity & Gravitation
- Member, European Physical Society
- Member, American Physical Society
- Fellow, Institute of Physics
- Member, Academia Europaea
- Fellow, Royal Society
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