Stephen Blundell
British physicist
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Stephen Blundell |
| birth_name | Stephen John Blundell |
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| fields | Physics |
| workplaces | University of Oxford |
| alma_mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| thesis_title | Spin-dependent transport in artificial structures |
| thesis_url | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309331 |
| thesis_year | 1993 |
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| awards | Daiwa Adrian Prize |
| spouse | Katherine Blundell |
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Education
Blundell completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, attending Peterhouse, Cambridge for his undergraduate degree in physics and theoretical physics and doing his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge.
Career and research
He was subsequently offered a Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) research fellowship which involved a move to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford; he was later awarded a junior research fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation. In 1997 he was appointed to a university lectureship in the Oxford Physics Department and a tutorial fellowship at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was subsequently promoted to Reader. In 2004 he was awarded the title of Professor of Physics.
Blundell has authored textbooks, the first being Magnetism in Condensed Matter, |title=Magnetism in Condensed Matter |last1=Blundel|first1=Stephen |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780198505914}} which covers the quantum mechanical nature of magnetism. He has co-authored, with his wife and colleague, astrophysicist Katherine Blundell of St John's College, Oxford, a textbook entitled Concepts in Thermal Physics. It provides an introduction to the topics of thermal physics and statistical mechanics covered in a typical undergraduate course in physics. Additionally, he has authored the Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction,{{Cite book |title=Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction |last1=Blundel|first1=Stephen |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780199540907}} part of the Very Short Introductions series published by Oxford University Press. He has co-authored pedagogical books on both quantum field theory and general relativity with Tom Lancaster.
He has authored or co-authored over 300 articles ranging right across the world of solid-state physics.
Awards and honours
Blundell was a joint winner of the Daiwa Adrian Prize in 1999 for his work on organic magnets. He was awarded the 2024 Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize "for contributions to physics scholarship and education through the publication of widely used and influential physics textbooks".
Personal life
Blundell lives in Oxford with his wife, Professor Katherine Blundell. In 2001, he was quoted in Science as saying, "Ultimately your marriage is more important than your career."
References
References
- {{LCAuth. nb2001082880. Stephen J. Blundell
- Blundell, Stephen John. (1993). "Spin-dependent transport in artificial structures". University of Cambridge.
- [http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2004-5/supps/1_4706.htm "Recognition of Distinction 2003-2004"], Supplement (1) to ''The Oxford University Gazette'', no. 4706 (23 September 2004). Retrieved 20 November 2016.
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- "Stephen Blundell Publications".
- (2010). "Concepts in thermal physics". [[Oxford University Press]].
- "2024 Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize | Institute of Physics".
- Jamieson, Valerie. (October 3, 2001). "Love and the two-body problem".
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