Brian Flowers#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 5 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Brian Flowers passed away June 25, 2010.
Positions Held
- 2009 - Leave of absence
- 1994 - 2001 Chancellor of the University of Manchester
- 1985 - 1990 Vice-chancellor, University of London
- 1973 - 1985 Rector of Imperial College London, University of London
- 1967 - 1973 Chairman of the Science Research Council
- 1961 - 1972 Langworthy Professor of physics
- 1958 - 1961 Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester
- 1952 - 1958 Head of the theoretical physics division at AERE
- 1950 - 1952 Member of the department of mathematical physics at the University of Birmingham
- 1946 - 1950 Researcher in nuclear physics and atomic energy at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE)
- 1944 - 1946 Anglo-Canadian Atomic Energy Project Tube Alloys
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear physics
- Atomic energy
Honours and Awards
- 1988 - 1991 Member of the council of the Academia Europaea
- 1987 Awarded the Glazebrook Medal by the Institute of Physics
- 1981 Officer of the French Légion d'honneur
- 1979 Life peer with the title Baron Flowers
- 1969 Knighted
- 1968 Institute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize
- 1961 Fellow of the Royal Society
- Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
