Rodney Loudon

Rodney Loudon (born July 25, 1934 ) is a British physicist who works in quantum optics .

Loudon received his PhD from Oxford University . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of California, Berkeley in 1959/60 and then at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) in Malvern from 1960 to 1965 and at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill in 1965/66 . In 1966 he became a reader and in 1967 a professor at the University of Essex . In 2008 he retired.

He was at British Telecom Laboratories from 1984 and 1989 to 1995, visiting professor at Yale University in 1975 and at the University of California, Irvine in 1980 .

He is the author of a textbook on quantum optics.

In 1992 he received the Max Born Award and in 1987 the Young Medal . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Fonts

The quantum theory of light , Oxford University Press, 1973, 3rd edition 2000
with W. Hayes Scattering of light by crystals , Wiley 1978
with DJ Barber Introduction to the properties of condensed matter , Cambridge University Press 1989

personal data
SURNAME	Loudon, Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1934