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Derek Abbott (3 May 1960, in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer.

In the 1969-1971 period, he was a boarder at Copthorne Preparatory School, Sussex, UK. He attended Copthorne at the same time as the deputy editor of Private Eye, Francis Wheen.

During 1971-1978 he attended the Holland Park School, London, sometimes called "the socialist Eton."

In late 1977, he began work at GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley, UK, performing research in the area of CCD and microchip design for imaging systems. Whilst working, he graduated in 1982 with a BSc in Physics from Loughborough University, where his key intellectual influence was Nicholas J. Phillips. In 1986, at the time when the mysterious GEC deaths started, he began work as a microchip designer at Austek Microsystems in Adelaide, Australia. In 1987, he joined the University of Adelaide completing his PhD thesis in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 1995, entitled GaAs MESFET Photodetectors for Imaging Arrays, under Kamran Eshraghian and Bruce R. Davis.

Further reading

• Who's Who in South Australia, Ed. Suzannah Pearce, Publ: Crown Content Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, 2007, p. 1, ISBN 978-1-74095-142-5

References

1. ^ http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/people/profiles/academic.html#abbott
2. Cite error: The named reference wick was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
3. IEEE Trans. Instrum. & Meas., Vol. 51, No. 2, p. 309, 2002
4. What's happening in the IEEE, March 2005 Our newest Fellow: Dr Derek Abbott FIEEE
5. http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=101078

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