Sir Tom Kibble#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2005 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Sir Tom Kibble passed away June 2, 2016.
Positions Held
- 1998 Emeritus Professor & Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College London
- 1980 FRS
- 1970 - 1998 Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London
- 1961 Lecturer, Imperial College London
- 1958 PhD Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum field theory and cosmology, especially symmetry breaking and topological defects
Honours and Awards
- Royal Medal, Royal Society, 2012
- J.J. Sakurai Prize, American Physical Society, 2010
- CBE, H M The Queen, 1998
- Mentoring lifetime achievement award, NESTA/Nature, 2005
- Guthrie Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, 1993
- Rutherford Medal and Prize (jointly), Institute of Physics, 1984
- Hughes Medal (jointly), Royal Society, 1981
- Member, Society for General Relativity & Gravitation
- Member, European Physical Society
- Member, American Physical Society
- Fellow, Institute of Physics
- Member, Academia Europaea
- Fellow, Royal Society
