# Clifford Paterson Lecture

The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society now given biennially on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer. The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson, founder-director of the GEC Wembley Research Laboratories 1918-1948, were instituted by the General Electric Company plc in 1975.
Not to be confused with the Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize.

## Clifford Paterson Lectures

Lecturers include:
* 1976 Eric Eastwood on Radar: new techniques and applications
* 1977 Gordon Rawcliffe on Induction motors: old and new
* 1978 Eric Ash on Recent advances in acoustic imaging
* 1979 Gordon George Scarrott on From slave to servant: the evolution of computing systems
* 1980 Derek Harry Roberts on Memory: its function, technology and impact
* 1981 Cyril Hilsum on Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit
* 1982 Michael Crowley-Milling on The worlds largest accelerator: the electron-positron collider LEP
* 1983 John Edwin Midwinter on Optical fibre communications, present and future
* 1984 Alexander Lamb Cullen on Microwaves: the art and the science
* 1985 George William Gray on Liquid crystals: an arena for research and industrial collaboration among chemists, physicists and engineers
* 1986 Alec Nigel Broers on Fundamental limits to microstructure fabrication
* 1987 Gareth Gwyn Roberts on At home with science and technology
* 1988 Walter Thompson Welford on Microlithography and the ultraviolet: experiments with an excimer laser
* 1989 Alan Walter Rudge on The organization and management of R&D in a privatised British Telecom
* 1990 Maurice Wilkes on Progress and research in the computer industry
* 1991 David N. Payne on Circuits, sensors and strands of light
* 1992 Marcel Garnier on Magnetohydrodynamics in material processing
* 1993 I.R. Young on Accurate measurement in vivo magnetic resonance: an engineering problem?
* 1994 Michael Brady on Seeing machines and robots
* 1995 Frank Kelly on Modelling communication networks: present and future
* 1996 Martin Wood on Superconductivity: will the dream come true?
* 1997 Gareth Parry on From electrons and photons to optoelectronics and photonics
* 1998 Colin Webb on Making light work: applications of high power lasers
* 1999 Andy Hopper on Progress and research in the communications industry
* 2000 Eli Yablonovitch on Electronmagnetic bandgaps, at photonic and radio frequencies
* 2001 Allan Snyder on Light guiding light in the new millennium
* 2002 Roger Needham on Computer Security?
* 2003 Chris Toumazou on The bionic man
* 2004 Sandu Popescu on What is quantum non-locality?
* 2005 Wilson Sibbett on Optical science in the fast lane
* 2006 Richard Friend on Plastic fantastic; electronics for the 21st Century. The lecture can be view from the Video Library
* 2008 Martin Bodo Plenio, on Taming the Quanta
* 2009 Andrew DeMello on The Lilliput laboratory: chemistry & biology on the small scale
* 2010 David MacKay on Information theory meets writing
* 2011 S. Ravi P. Silva on Carbon electronics
* 2012 Molly Stevens on Regenerating organs and other small challenges
* 2014 Polina Bayvel on Fundamental research in high bandwidth digital communications and nonlinear optics
* 2016 Russell Cowburn for his remarkable academic, technical and commercial achievements in nano-magnetics
* 2018 Timothy Leighton for translation of his fundamental research into acoustics and its application in many areas ...
* 2020 Jacqui Cole for the development of photo-crystallography and the discovery of novel high-performance nonlinear optical materials and light-harvesting dyes using molecular design rules
* 2022 Anne Neville for her innovative research into corrosion and tribology and the successful application of this to wide-ranging, real life, engineering problems