Andrew D. Taylor

For other people named Andrew Taylor, see Andrew Taylor (disambiguation).
Andrew Taylor
CBE FRS FRSE FInstP
Born
Andrew Dawson Taylor

1950 (age 73–74)[2]
Falkirk[2]
EducationDenny High School
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow (BSc)[3]
University of Oxford (DPhil)
AwardsRichard Glazebrook Medal and Prize (2006)
Scientific career
InstitutionsScience and Technology Facilities Council
ISIS neutron source[1]
ThesisInelastic neutron scattering by chemical rate processes (1976)

Andrew Dawson Taylor (born 1950[2]) was director of the Science and Technology Facilities Council National Laboratories[4] – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,[5][1] Daresbury Laboratory, and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh[6][7] until his retirement in 2019.[8]

Education

Taylor was educated at Denny High School, the University of Glasgow[2] and the University of Oxford where he was a postgraduate student of St John's College, Oxford.[2] He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research using inelastic neutron scattering.[9]

Career and research

Taylor's research interests are in neutron science, neutron sources[7] and neutron scattering,[4][3] he is recognised as an international leader in the development of large-scale research facilities and their infrastructures.[6]

Awards and honours

Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[10] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours[2][11][3] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to science and technology.[12] He was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)[when?] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2006.[13] He was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2006.

References

  1. ^ a b Taylor, Andrew (2008). "Welcome to the second target station at ISIS". Materials Today. 11 (12): 72. doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(08)70259-1. ISSN 1369-7021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2017). "Taylor, Andrew Dawson". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U247102. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c Gribben, Roland (13 May 2009). "Andrew Taylor profile: Neutron man grapples with the invisibles". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b Andrew D. Taylor publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Seeger, P.A.; Taylor, A.D.; Brugger, R.M. (1985). "Double-difference method to improve the resolution of an eV neutron spectrometer". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 240 (1): 98–114. Bibcode:1985NIMPA.240...98S. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(85)90392-4. ISSN 0168-9002.
  6. ^ a b Anon (2019). "Dr Andrew Taylor OBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  7. ^ a b Taylor, A.; Dunne, M.; Bennington, S.; Ansell, S.; Gardner, I.; Norreys, P.; Broome, T.; Findlay, D.; Nelmes, R. (2007). "A Route to the Brightest Possible Neutron Source?". Science. 315 (5815): 1092–1095. Bibcode:2007Sci...315.1092T. doi:10.1126/science.1127185. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17322053. S2CID 42506679.
  8. ^ "ISIS New Year Honour for Dr Andrew Taylor".
  9. ^ Taylor, Andrew Dawson (1976). Inelastic Neutron Scattering by Chemical Rate Processes (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500576530. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.474621.
  10. ^ Anon (2015). "Royal Society Elections". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015.
  11. ^ Anon (2019). "STFC director honoured by the Royal Society". stfc.ukri.org. Science and Technology Facilities Council.
  12. ^ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N10.
  13. ^ Anon (2006). "Dr Andrew Dawson Taylor OBE, FRS, FRSE". rse.org.uk. Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh.