Stuart Parkin

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Dresden Barkhausen Award 2009

Stuart SP Parkin FRS , full Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (born December 9, 1955 in Watford ) is a British experimental physicist. In April 2014 he was appointed to an Alexander von Humboldt professorship at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle.

Life

Parkin received his BSc in Physics and Theoretical Physics from Trinity College , Cambridge University in 1977 . In 1980 he received his PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory . Then he worked for two years on the Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship at the University of Paris-South . In 1982 he came to the IBM Almaden Research Center . Since April 2014 he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle and received a Humboldt Professorship at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2014 .

Originally he worked on superconductors and investigated organic and ceramic high-temperature superconductors. He later researched thin magnetic film structures and made important contributions to the understanding of the GMR effect . The specific possibility of the GMR effect u. a. in a sensor for a magnetic field (and thus as a new type of read head in a hard disk drive ), which had already been implicitly recognized by the aforementioned two Nobel Prize winners, was realized very quickly mainly by an IBM research team under Stuart Parkin, with Parkin before in particular investigated the oscillatory dependence on the width of the magnetic layer. He replicated the effect with polycrystalline layers. IBM made the first commercial drive to take advantage of this effect in December 1997.

In the last few years (2010, 2011) Parkin has primarily been concerned with the so-called Racetrack memory , a new type of storage medium based on magnetoelectronics , which he himself has designed and promoted at IBM since 2008. He has published around 400 scientific articles and holds around 90 patents. Parkin is married to the chemist Claudia Felser , who works in Dresden, among other places.

Honors

For his work Parkin received the International New Materials Prize of the American Physical Society in 1994 and the European Physical Society Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize 1997, the latter two prizes together with the later Nobel Prize winners Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for work on the GMR effect, the discovered by the latter in 1988 and implemented into concrete applications mainly by Stuart Parkin and co-workers. All three also received an honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University in 2007 . On November 25, 2008 Parkin received the Gutenberg Research Award from the Graduate School Materials Science in Mainz at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . The Dresden Materials Research Association, together with other partners, presented Parkin with the Dresden Barkhausen Award in 2009 . Also in 2009, on July 27th, Stuart Parkin received one of the highest awards in the field of magnetism research: In Karlsruhe he was awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics magnetism Award (IUPAP) and the Louis Neel Medal. He has also been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2008 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 . On December 20, 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Regensburg . In 2012 he was awarded the Von Hippel Award . On June 3, 2013, the Physics Department at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern awarded him an honorary doctorate. Also in 2013 he was awarded the Swan Medal of the Institute of Physics . Parkin was previously elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1992, an IBM Fellow in 1999 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000 and a Fellow of the Gutenberg Research College of Johannes Gutenberg in 2011 -University of Mainz. For 2014 he was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize . In 2015 he was elected to the Leopoldina .

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  1. ↑ Top physicist Stuart Parkin will conduct research in Halle from April Press release of April 1, 2014 (uni-halle.de)
  2. ↑ Information on a page from IBM , accessed on April 10, 2014
  3. ↑ see Kerri Smith: Love in the lab: Close collaborators , in Nature Vol 510, June 26, 2014, 458
  4. ↑ Wiebke Hollersen: For the love of experiment. In: The world. December 14, 2014, archived from the original on December 14, 2014 ; Retrieved January 1, 1970 .
  5. ↑ Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern for pioneers of modern computer technology. University of Kaiserslautern, June 3, 2013, archived from the original on September 22, 2013 ; Retrieved June 8, 2013 .
  6. ^ Fellows of the AAAS. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed November 30, 2018 (no direct link possible, search for name and year).
  7. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Stuart SP Parkin (with CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Parkin, Stuart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parkin, Stuart SP; Parkin, Stuart Stephen Papworth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British experimental physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Watford