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Thesis | Inelastic scattering of neutrons from clathrate inclusion compounds and molecules in molecular sieves (1968) |
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Dame Julia Stretton Higgins
Education
Higgins was educated at the Ursuline High School, Wimbledon and Somerville College, Oxford where she was awarded Master of Arts and DPhil degrees.[8][9][10]
Career
In 1999, Higgins was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the application of neutron scattering and reflectivity to polymeric materials, and for service to the scientific community.
Higgins chaired the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) from 2008 to 2012. She is also a former chair (1998–2003) of the Athena Project, which aims for the advancement of women in science, engineering and technology (SET) in Higher Education. Between 2003 and 2007, she was also chair of the
She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Academy of Engineering,[11] and the City and Guilds of London Institute, of which she is Vice-President. She is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Physics and of Somerville College, Oxford.[12]
She was appointed a
In April 2003 she became chair of the
She is a Patron of
She served as president of the Institute of Physics from 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2019.[18]
Awards and honours
Higgins was elected a Fellow of the
Other awards and honours include:
- Principal of the Faculty of engineering (2006–07)
- Chair of the engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (2003 – April 2007)
- Trustee, National Gallery until 2010[20]
- Trustee, Daphne Jackson Trust
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering[11]
- Foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States
- Chevalier de la Légion d'honneurin 2003
- President, British Association for the Advancement of Sciencefrom 2003 until 2004.
- Received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2000[21]
- She is a foreign member of the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2001 Birthday Honours. In March 2010, the UKRC announced Professor Higgins as one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, engineering and Technology.[22]
- A portrait of her by Tess Barnes was unveiled in June 2014 at Imperial College.[23]
- In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[11]
- She was chair of the Royal Society's 2008 State of the Nation Report Steering Group for 'Science and mathematics education 14–19'.[24]
- In 2016, she was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on The Life Scientific.[10]
- Awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of engineering in 2020 "for her sustained excellence in polymer engineering".[25]
References
- ^ a b "HIGGINS, Dame Julia (Stretton)". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online edition via Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Higgins, Julia (2011). "Professor Dame Julia Higgins" (PDF). National Life Stories: An Oral History of British Science (Interview). Interviewed by Thomas Lean. The British Library. Ref no: C1379/55.
- ^ a b Julia Higgins's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Dame Julia Higgins profile". Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ^ Professor Dame Julia Higgins' profile Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Ingenia, September 2007
- YouTube
- YouTube, chaired by Julia Higgins
- ^ Higgins, Julia Stretton (1968). Inelastic scattering of neutrons from clathrate inclusion compounds and molecules in molecular sieves. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ a b c d "Life Stories in association with the British Library" (PDF). Sounds.bl.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ a b Al-Khalili, Jim (2016). "Julia Higgins on polymers, interview on The Life Scientific". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC.
- ^ a b c "List of Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ "Professor Dame Julia Higgins". Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- ^ "The Queen's birthday Honours". News.bbc.co.uk. 2001. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ "Somerville College Oxford web-site". Some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "ESPCI Paris : Conseil scientifique international". Espci.fr. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "About Us". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
- ^ "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Sciencecampaign.org.uk. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ "Dame Julia Higgins to be the IOP's next president-elect". Iop.org. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ "EC/1995/11: Higgins, Dame Julia Stretton". London, UK: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014.
- ^ "Board of Trustees". National Gallery. 2010. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". 1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "THE uk's MOST OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN SET ANNOUNCED : News from UK Resource Centre for Women (UKRC)". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ^ "Imperial unveils historic portrait of leading female scientist". 3.imperial.ac.uk. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "State of the Nation: Science and mathematics education 14–19". royalsociety.org. 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Sir Frank Whittle Medal". Retrieved 14 September 2020.