Stuart Parkin
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Parkin in 2009, receiving the Dresden Barkhausen Award.
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| Born | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin December 9, 1955 Watford, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Material Sciences spintronics |
| Institutions |
Stanford University IBM Research Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics University of Halle-Wittenberg |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Discoveries on spintronic materials, that allowed a 1000-fold increase in hard disk data density |
| Notable awards |
Europhysics Prize (1997) |
Europhysics Prize (1997)
Humboldt Research Award (2004)
Dresden Barkhausen Award (2009)
David Adler Lectureship Award (2012)
Millennium Technology Prize (2014)
Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (9 December 1955) is an experimental physicist, IBM Fellow and manager of the magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is also a consulting professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University and director of the IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center, which was formed in 2004.
He is a pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, and has made discoveries into the behavior of thin-film magnetic structures that were critical in enabling recent increases in the data density and capacity of computer hard-disk drives. For these discoveries, he was awarded the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize. Since 1 April 2014, Prof. Dr. Stuart Parkin is director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and professor at the Institute of Physics of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
A native of Watford, England, Parkin received his B.A. (1977) and was elected a Research Fellow (1979) at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and was awarded his Ph.D. (1980) at the Cavendish Laboratory, also in Cambridge. He joined IBM in 1982 as a World Trade Post-doctoral Fellow, becoming a permanent member of the staff the following year. In 1999 he was named an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor.
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