Martin Freer
{{short description|British physicist}}
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Martin Freer is a British Nuclear Physicist, professor. He is the CEO of the Faraday Institution.{{Cite web|url=https://www.faraday.ac.uk/professor-martin-freer-ceo/|title=Professor Martin Freer appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Faraday Institution|website=www.faraday.ac.uk}} He was previously head of the School of Physics and Astronomy{{Cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/physics/freer-martin.aspx|title=Professor Martin Freer, School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}} at the University of Birmingham. He won the 2010 Rutherford Medal and Prize for establishing the existence of nuclear configurations analogous to molecules.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/rutherford/medallists/page_43966.html|title=2010 Rutherford medal and prize|website=www.iop.org}}
Education
University of Birmingham
From 2015 until 1 July 2019, Martin Freer was the head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.
He is also the director of the Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research,{{Cite web|url=http://www.np.ph.bham.ac.uk/staff/freerm/|title=Martin Freer, Professor of Nuclear Physics|website=www.np.ph.bham.ac.uk}} whose purpose is to provide the investment and infrastructure to grow the nuclear expertise and capacity in Birmingham,{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/nuclear/about-us/index.aspx|title=About Us - Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}} as well as the Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/energy/index.aspx|title=Birmingham Energy Institute|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}} which seeks to develop sustainable energy solutions in transport, electricity and heat supply.
He featured in the Universities Birmingham Heroes campaign for "championing UK investment in clean-cold technologies amid concern that global demand for cooling and refrigeration will overtake heating by 2060."{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/heroes/energy-crisis.aspx|title=Energy Crisis|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}}
Works
- Hans O. U. Fynbo, Martin Freer, [http://physics.aps.org/articles/v4/94 "Viewpoint: Rotations of the Hoyle State in Carbon-12"], Physics 4, 94 (2011) | {{doi|10.1103/Physics.4.94}}
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Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham