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Cyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng HonFInstP (born 1925) is a British scientist, with a long career in solid-state physics and semiconductors.
He was schooled at Raine's Foundation School in London. He obtained a BSc and PhD degree from University College London.
Career
- Admiralty Research Laboratory 1947-1950
- Services Electronics Research Laboratory (SERL) 1950-1964.
- Royal Radar Establishment 1964-1983.
- Director of Research at GEC Hirst Research Centre from 1983-1992.
Whilst working for the Ministry of Defence Cyril Hilsum was instrumental in the development of gallium arsenide as a semiconductor material. Applications of GaAs included transistors and lasers. He was involved in the use of indium antimonide as an infrared detector material, and carried out early work on flat-panel displays (LCDs).
Cyril Hilsum is a trustee of the Rank Prize Fund (for optoelectronics). He has served as corporate research adviser for the European Commission, Unilever and Cambridge Display Technology.
Honours
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering (for introducing III-V semiconductors into electronic technology),
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1979)
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1978)
- Fellow of the IEEE
- Max Born Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 1987
- Faraday Medal from the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1988
- He was awarded the CBE in 1990
- Honorary DEng from Sheffield University in 1992
- Glazebrook Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 1997,
- Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2001
- Royal Medal in 2007
Personal
Hilsum's daughter, Karen Burt, died in 1997. He has endowed an award for young female engineers in her name.
Bibliography
- 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
External links
- IEEE Fellowship
- David Spencer's profiles of Old Raineans
- Portrait in the National gallery
- List of published literature from Google Scholar
- Karen Burt memorial award
- Articles lacking sources from January 2008
- 1925 births
- Living people
- English physicists
- Semiconductor physicists
- Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Alumni of University College London
- Life Fellows of the Institute of Physics UK