David Sherrington#
| Membership Number: | 3273 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/sherr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008, 10 - present: Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK
- 1989, 10 - 2008, 09: Wykeham Professor of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
- 1983, 10 - 1989, 09: Professor of Physics, Imperial College, London, UK
- 1974, 10 - 1983, 09: Reader in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College, London, UK
- 1969, 10 - 1974, 09: Lecturer in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College, London, UK
- 1967, 10 - 1969, 09: Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, UK
- 1964, 10 - 1967, 09: Assistant Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, UK
- 1995, 09 - 1996, 09: Ulam Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
- 1977, 09 - 1979, 08: Senior Scientist, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France
- 1967, 08 - 1969, 09: Assistant Research Scientist, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Statistical physics
- Many body theory
- Theory of complex systems
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Fellow of European Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1985 Fellow of American Physical Society
- 1974 Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- 2010 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics, European Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Dirac Medal and Prize (IOP) (premier in theoretical physics)
- 2009 Scott Lectures (University of Cambridge)
- 2001 Royal Society Bakerian Lectureship (premier in physical sciences)
- 2012 Special issue of Philosophical Magazine published in honour of 70th birthday; Vol 92, issues 103 (2012)
- 2008 Special issue of Journal of Physics A published in honour of 65th birthday; Vol 41 Number 32 (2008)
