Geoffrey Copland | |
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| Born | Geoffrey Malcolm Copland (1942-06-28)28 June 1942 (age 83) |
| Education | Fitzmaurice Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Yale University Queen Mary College Queen Elizabeth College Goldsmiths College Polytechnic of Central London University of Westminster Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance |
| Thesis | Some hyperfine interactions in solids (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brebis Bleaney[1] |
| Website | www |
Geoffrey Malcolm CoplandCBE CPhys FInstP FRSA (born 28 June 1942) is a British physicist and former vice-chancellor of theUniversity of Westminster.[2][3]
Copland was educated atFitzmaurice Grammar School inBradford-on-Avon. He was an undergraduate student atMerton College, Oxford where he readPhysics from 1960.[4] After being awarded afirst class undergraduate degree in 1963, he remained in Oxford for hisDPhil, which was awarded in 1967 for research onhyperfine structure supervised byBrebis Bleaney.[1]
Following his doctorate, Copland spent two years atYale University, before returning to the UK in 1969 as alecturer in physics atQueen Mary College.[2] In 1971 he joinedQueen Elizabeth College as a lecturer in physics, a post he held until 1980. In 1981 he was made dean of studies atGoldsmiths College, then in 1987 he moved to become deputy rector at thePolytechnic of Central London (which later became theUniversity of Westminster), becoming its rector andvice-chancellor in 1996. Since 2007 he has been a consultant on higher education, and has held a range of academic and industry positions, including serving aschair andvice chair ofTrinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.[3]
He was awarded aFellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1991,[2] and appointed aCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2007 Birthday Honours for services to higher education.[5] The main-belt asteroid9193 Geoffreycopland, discovered on 10 March 1992 byDuncan Steel atSiding Spring Observatory is named after him.
Copland has been twice married, firstly in 1967 to Janet Mary Todd, with whom he had a son and a daughter; their marriage was dissolved in 1985, and that year Copland remarried, to Dorothy Joy Harrison.[2]
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