Wilson Sibbett
Wilson Sibbett (born March 15, 1948 in Portglenone , Northern Ireland ) is a British physicist and university professor who deals with lasers . He is a professor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland .
Life
Sibbett studied at Queen's University Belfast with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1970 and received his doctorate from Imperial College in London in 1973, where he was then a research fellow, lecturer from 1977 and reader from 1984. From 1985 he was a professor at St. Andrews University, where he headed the physics faculty from 1985 to 1987 and was director of research at the School of Physics and Astronomy from 1994 to 2003. From 1997 he was Wardlow Professor of Physics there.
He dealt with ultrashort laser pulses and their application, optical communication technology and photobiology.
He built a streak camera with resolution in the picosecond range and below and was the first to demonstrate mode coupling with Kerr lenses (Kerr Lense Mode Coupling) with a titanium-sapphire laser to generate femtosecond laser pulses.
In 2011 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award , in 1993 the CV Boys Medal of the Institute of Physics, in 1997 the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and in 2002 the Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1997) and received its Rumford Medal in 2000 (for his research on ultrashort laser pulses) and its Royal Medal in 2009 . He is CBE (2001). 1986 became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics . He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1998) and the European Optical Society (2007) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1989). He has two honorary doctorates ( University of Dundee , Trinity College Dublin ).
In 2001 he became the Scottish Science Advisory Committee to the Scottish Government.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sibbett, Wilson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portglenone , Northern Ireland |