Andrew Dawson Taylor CBE FRS FRSE FInstP[4] (born 1950[2]) was director of the Science and Technology Facilities Council National Laboratories[5] – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,[6][1] Daresbury Laboratory, and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh[4][7] until his retirement in 2019.[8]
Andrew Taylor | |
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Born | Andrew Dawson Taylor 1950 (age 73–74)[2] |
Education | Denny High School |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow (BSc)[3] University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Awards | Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize (2006) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Science and Technology Facilities Council ISIS neutron source[1] |
Thesis | Inelastic neutron scattering by chemical rate processes (1976) |
Taylor was educated at Denny High School, the University of Glasgow[2] and the University of Oxford where he was a postgraduate student of St John's College, Oxford.[2] He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research using inelastic neutron scattering.[9]
Taylor's research interests are in neutron science, neutron sources[7] and neutron scattering,[5][3] he is recognised as an international leader in the development of large-scale research facilities and their infrastructures.[4]
Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[10] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours[2][11][3] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to science and technology.[12] He was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)[when?] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2006.[13] He was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2006.
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