Cyril Hilsum

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Cyril Hilsum
Faraday Medal (1988)
Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize (1997)
Royal Medal
(2007)

Cyril Hilsum

HonFInstP FREng[1] (born 17 May 1925)[2]
is a British physicist and academic.

Hilsum was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for the inventiveness and leadership in introducing III-V semiconductors into electronic technology.

Life

Hilsum entered

Heinrich Welker Memorial Award in 1978,[3] was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,[1] a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979 and an honorary member of the American National Academy of Engineering.[2]

In 1983, he was appointed chief scientist at

National Portrait Gallery.[6] In 1998, he was awarded the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics, and is notable as the only scientist to hold both this and the Faraday Medal together.[7]

He has served as a corporate research advisor for various entities, including Cambridge Display Technology, the European Commission and Unilever. In 2007, he was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal 'for his many outstanding contributions and for continuing to use his prodigious talents on behalf of industry, government and academe to this day'.[8]

Hilsum serves as chairman of the scientific board for Peratech and is a visiting professor of physics at UCL, as well as sitting on the Defence Scientific Advisory Council.[9] He also endorses the Karen Burt Memorial Award, named after his daughter, which is awarded yearly by the Women's Engineering Society 'to a woman engineer of high calibre who has newly attained full corporate membership and Chartered Engineer status through her relevant professional Institution and who has contributed to the promotion of the engineering profession'.[10] In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the ESSCIRC,[11] and in 2007 wrote an obituary for Gareth Roberts for The Guardian[12] and the Royal Society.[13]

Research

While working for the

semiconductor laser
. He was one of the developers of the
LCD technology,[15] bringing in over £100m to the UK government. The British Liquid Crystal Society awards a Cyril Hilsum Medal each year "to British candidates for overall contributions to liquid-crystal science and technology. The award is made to mid-career scientists who have made notable contributions to the subject over a number of years."[16]

Personal life

He married Betty Hilsum, with whom he had two daughters, Lindsey, a correspondent for Channel 4[17] and Karen Burt, an engineer who died in 1997 and has a Women's Engineering Society memorial award named after her.[18]

Works

  • Semiconducting III-V Compounds (Monographs on Semiconductors), C. Hilsum, 239 pages, Publ. Elsevier (1961),
    ISBN 0-08-009499-6
  • Liquid Crystals, C. Hilsum, Cambridge Univ Press (1985),
    ISBN 0-521-30465-2
  • Device Physics (Vol 4 of Handbook on Semiconductors), C. Hilsum and T.S. Moss (Editors), 1244 pages, Publ. JAI Press (1993)
    ISBN 0-444-88813-6
  • Communications After AD2000, C. Hilsum, D.E.N. Davies, A.W. Rudge (Editors), Chapman & Hall, (1993),
    ISBN 0-412-49550-3

References

  1. ^ a b c "List of Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Famous personalities from Raine's Foundation School". Archived from the original on 16 June 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  3. ^ "Awards – ISCS2007". International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors. Archived from the original on 1 April 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  4. ^ "No. 52173". The London Gazette. 15 June 1990. pp. 7–8.
  5. National Portrait Gallery
    . Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  6. National Portrait Gallery
    . Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Professor Cyril Hilsum CBE". Malvern Science Services. Retrieved 13 November 2008.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Award winners : Royal Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 January 2024 – via Google Sheets.
  9. ^ "Peratech Board Members". Peratech. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  10. ^ "Jane Wild was presented with the Karen Burt Memorial Award by WES president Pam Wain". Women's Engineering Society. Archived from the original on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  11. ^ "ESSCIRC – Fellows". European Conference on Solid-State Circuits. Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  12. ^ Hilsum, Cyril (17 March 2007). "Obituary: Sir Gareth Roberts". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  13. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0016
    .
  14. ^ "Cyril Hilsum". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  15. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2002.1002521. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 21 January 2013.
  16. ^ "Cyril Hilsum Medal awarded". 30 April 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  17. ^ "Broadcast media". The Times. London. 5 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2008.
  18. ^ "Karen Burt Award". British Computer Society. Archived from the original on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2008.

External links

Portraits of Cyril Hilsum at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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