Edward Hinds

{{short description|British physicist}}

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|name = Professor Edward Allen Hinds

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|honorific_suffix = FRS

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|9|8|df=yes}}

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|citizenship = British

|nationality = British

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|field = Physics

|work_institutions = Columbia University
Yale University
SCOAP, University of Sussex
Imperial College London

|alma_mater = Jesus College, Oxford

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|known_for = cold matter (physics)

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|website = [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/ed.hinds]

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|prizes = Humboldt Prize (1998)
FRS (2004)
Rumford Medal (2008)
Thomson Medal (2008)
Bakerian Medal (2019)

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Edward Allen Hinds FInstP FAPS FRS (born 8 Sept 1949){{cite news

| title = Birthdays

| newspaper = The Guardian

| pages = 33

| publisher = Guardian News & Media

| date = 8 Sep 2014

}}{{cite web|title=Hinds, Prof. Edward Allen|website=Who's Who 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=December 2008 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U4000690|access-date=2 March 2009}} is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter.

He was educated at Dame Allan's School in Newcastle{{cite web|url=http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2007/11/4/239427.html|title=The Northern Echo: Prestigious awards for school's old boys|date=4 November 2007|publisher=The Northern Echo|access-date=2009-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523145004/http://newsquest.co.uk/|archive-date=23 May 2012|url-status=dead}} before being offered a place at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1968.{{cite journal|journal=The Jesus College Record|year=2008|page=118|title=Honours, Awards and Qualifications}} He obtained both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate before moving to the United States to teach at Columbia University.

He served as professor of physics at Yale University before returning to the United Kingdom in 1994 to start the Sussex Centre for Optical and Atomic Physics at Sussex University.{{cite web|url=http://www.phys.ncl.ac.uk/about/history/wood2002.htm |title=The Wood Memorial Lecture - Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne |publisher=University of Newcastle |access-date=2009-01-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925101535/http://www.phys.ncl.ac.uk/about/history/wood2002.htm |archive-date=September 25, 2006 }}

He is currently (2014) a Royal Society Research Professor and director of the Centre for Cold Matter at Imperial College London, where his research is concentrated on fundamental problems in physics and on new methods for producing and manipulating cold atoms and molecules.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/edward-hinds-11621/|title= Professor Ed Hinds FRS |publisher= Royal Society|access-date = 19 October 2014}}