Professor John Loveday Inaugural Lecture: Some things you can do with a Paris Edinburgh cell

About this Lecture

The development of the Paris-Edinburgh cell established neutron diffraction as a viable high-pressure technique and transformed understanding of high-pressure phenomena which can only be studied by neutron diffraction. In my talk, I will describe the cell and its development, and illustrate it's impact with examples from my work.

Biography

John Loveday graduated in Chemical Physics at Bristol in 1984. After PhD studies in low-temperature physics again at Bristol he joined the then Department of Physics at Edinburgh in 1987 as a postdoc.

Initially he worked on the structures of superconductors at high pressure but in 1988 he become one of the founding members of the team which developed the Paris-Edinburgh pressure cell for neutron don diffraction.

From 1992-2003 he was based at the ISIS neutron source in Oxfordshire and in 2003 he moved back to Edinburgh to take up a readership. As a founding member of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC) He has led programmes of research into the properties of ices (ammonia, methane, and water-ice) and ice mixtures at high pressure. These programmes are focussed on understanding the fundamental properties of the ices and on understanding how these properties determines the behaviour of bodies in the Outer Solar System like Uranus, Neptune, and Titan.

Refreshments

The lecture will be followed by a reception in the foyer, Nucleus Building.

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