Clifford Paterson Lecture
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}}The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society now given biennially on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer.{{cite web|title=The Clifford Paterson Lecture (1975)|url=http://royalsociety.org/Clifford-Paterson-Lecture/|publisher=The Royal Society|access-date=2010-06-11}} The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson,{{Cite journal | last1 = Ryde | first1 = J. W. | title = Clifford Copland Paterson. 1879-1948 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1949.0010 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 6 | issue = 18 | pages = 479–501 | year = 1949 | jstor = 768937| doi-access = free }} founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by the General Electric Company plc in 1975.
Not to be confused with the Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize.
Clifford Paterson Lectures
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- 1976 Eric Eastwood on Radar: new techniques and applications
- 1977 Gordon Rawcliffe on Induction motors: old and new
- 1978 Eric Ash 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 on Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit
- 1982 Michael Crowley-Milling on The worlds largest accelerator: the electron-positron collider LEP''
- 1983 John Edwin Midwinter on Optical fibre communications, present and future
- 1984 Alexander Lamb Cullen 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 on Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication
- 1987 Gareth Gwyn Roberts 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 {{cite web|url = http://royalsociety.org/awards/clifford-paterson-lecture/| title = Clifford Paterson Lecture|publisher= The Royal Society|access-date = 2012-05-18}}
- 1990 Maurice Wilkes 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 on [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/CP/ Modelling communication networks: present and future]''{{Cite journal | last1 = Kelly | first1 = F. P. | title = The Clifford Paterson Lecture, 1995: Modelling Communication Networks, Present and Future | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | volume = 354 | issue = 1707 | pages = 437–463 | doi = 10.1098/rsta.1996.0016 | year = 1996 | bibcode = 1996RSPTA.354..437K | s2cid = 60742941 }}
- 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 on Making light work: applications of high power lasers
- 1999 Andy Hopper on Progress and research in the communications industry
- 2000 Eli Yablonovitch on Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies
- 2001 Allan Snyder on Light guiding light in the new millennium
- 2002 Roger Needham on Computer Security?
- 2003 Chris Toumazou on The bionic man
- 2004 Sandu Popescu on What is quantum non-locality?
- 2005 Wilson Sibbett on Optical science in the fast lane
- 2006 Richard Friend on Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library
- 2008 Martin Bodo Plenio, 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 on Regenerating organs and other small challenges
- 2014 Polina Bayvel on Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics
- 2016 Russell Cowburn 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 {{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/clifford-paterson-lecture/|title=Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture winner 2020|publisher=Royal Society|access-date=5 October 2019}}
- 2022 Anne Neville 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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