Roger Cowley

Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstP (24 February 1939 – 27 January 2015) was an English physicist who specialised in the excitations of solids.

Education
Cowley obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Cambridge.

Career and research
He was appointed professor of physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1970 and Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 1988 (a post that carried with it a fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford). Cowley made his name in the field of neutron scattering. This work lead to the study of phase transitions.

Awards and honours
Cowley was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1978. He was awarded the inaugural Max Born Prize in 1973, and the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize in 1990.

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