Richard Henry Friend

Richard Friend.

Richard Henry Friend (born January 18, 1953 in London ) is a British physicist .

Friend studied at Cambridge University ( Trinity College ), where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1974 . He then was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory . In 1977 he became a fellow of St. John's College and in 1978 he received his doctorate . As a post-doctoral student , he was a CNRS scientist at the University of Paris-South in 1977/78 . In 1980 he became a University Demonstrator, 1985 Lecturer and 1993 Reader at Cambridge University. He has been the Cavendish Professor of Physics there since 1995 and chairman of the physics faculty since 2004. In 1986/87 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and since 2006 he has also been professor at the National University of Singapore .

Friend is a pioneer in the field of semiconductors made from polymers . Using these materials, he demonstrated FETs (1988), LEDs (1990), efficient photovoltaic diodes (1995), lasers (1996), directly printable (with inkjet printers ) transistor circuits (2000), light-emitting transistors (2006).

He has been Chief Scientist at Cambridge Display Technology since 1996 and Scientific Advisor at Plastic Logic Ltd. since 2000 . He co-founded both companies.

Prizes and awards

• 1988 Charles Vernon Boys Award
• 1993 Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1996 Hewlett Packard Prize from the European Physical Society
• 1998 Rumford Medal from the Royal Society
• 2002 Fellow, Silver Medal and McRobert Prize from the Royal Academy of Engineering
• 2003 Gold Medal of the European Materials Research Society ,
• 2003 Descartes Prize from the European Commission
• 2003 Faraday Medal from the Institute of Electrical Engineers
• In 2003 he was for services to the physics of Knight Bachelor appointed
• In 2004 he became an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College
• 2008 Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• 2009 King Faisal Prize
• 2009 the Swan Medal (together with David Fyfe )
• 2010 Millennium Technology Prize
• 2011 the Harvey Prize of the Technion
• 2013 Foreign member of the National Academy of Engineers
• 2015 Von Hippel Award
• He is a multiple honorary doctorates ( Linköping University , University of Mons , Radboud University Nijmegen , Heriot-Watt University ).

Web links

• Homepage Professor Sir Richard Friend FRS. University of Cambridge(English). 
• Profile on Google Scholar. (As of 2018: over 140,000 citations). 
• Professor Sir Richard H. Friend, Winner of the 2009 KFP Prize for Science. kingfaisalprize.org(English). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Honorary fellows: Sir Richard Henry Friend. IOP, accessed on November 13, 2018 . 
2. ^ Professor Sir Richard H. Friend, Winner of the 2009 KFP Prize for Science. kingfaisalprize.org, accessed November 13, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Millennium Technology Prize 2010. Technology Academy Finland, accessed November 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Technion Honors: Harvey Prize. Israel Institute of Technology, accessed November 13, 2018 . 
5. ^ Professor Richard Henry Friend Foreign Member. National Academy of Engineers, accessed November 13, 2018 .