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Paul Attfield
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John Paul Attfield
27 July 1962 |
| Education | Durham Johnston School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Thesis | The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anthony Cheetham Peter Battle |
John Paul Attfield (born in 1962) is a British scientist. He is a professor of materials science at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He also leads a special center called the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).
Paul Attfield's Education
Paul Attfield went to Durham Johnston School in England. He then studied at the University of Oxford. There, he earned a degree in chemistry. In 1987, he completed his PhD. His PhD research was about crystallography, which is the study of how atoms are arranged in crystals.
Paul Attfield's Career and Research
From 1991 to 2003, Professor Attfield worked at the University of Cambridge. He started as a lecturer and later became a Reader. His research focuses on creating and studying electronic materials. These materials include transition metal oxides. He studies their structure and properties.
Professor Attfield has done important work on magnetite. This is a type of iron ore. He helped solve how its charge ordering properties work. He also uses special X-ray techniques to study how atoms are arranged in solid materials. This helps scientists understand how materials behave.
He has created new materials with interesting electronic properties. These include materials that can be superconductors at higher temperatures. He also works with materials that show colossal magnetoresistance. This means their electrical resistance changes a lot in a magnetic field.
Awards and Honours
Professor Attfield has received many awards for his scientific work. In 1991, he won the Meldola Medal and Prize. In 1998, he received the Corday-Morgan Medal. Both of these awards are from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
In 2013, he was given the Peter Day Award. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). This is a very high honour for scientists in the UK. In 2016, he received a Daiwa Adrian Prize. This award recognized his work with Japanese scientists. In 2022, he won the John B. Goodenough Award. This award was for his discoveries of new materials. He found these materials using high pressure. He also found new electronic effects in solid materials.
