Physics MSc Courses at Surrey

• MSc Medical Physics: Started 1973-4: Course Director Dr. C.E. Doust, followed by Nicholas Spyrou. Between 1973-2005, 732 students !! 314 UK, 159 EU & 259 overseas.

• MSc in Radiation and Environmental Protection: Started in 1974-5 session (precursors, MSc/Dip. in Principles and Practice of Radiological Protection; Certificate in Radiological Protection). Course Director, Walter Gilboy. Between 1975-2005 > 500 graduates. Sponsorships from SRC,SERC, EPSRC, IAEA, AWE, GE-Healthcare, British Energy, RWE NUKEM, UKAEA….

A Profile of the Surrey Group (1)• Computing Support Staff: Mr Ken Knight, Dr Len Julien, Dr

John Wright, Mrs Joan Hilton, and currently Mr David Munro.• Visiting Staff: Drs Chris Batty (RAL), Charles Clement

(Harwell) , N P Mett (OU), PJR Soper (Roehampton) (of the Johnson-Soper method ) , M A Nagarajan and the late David Warner (both DL), A A Ioannides (OU), Bertrand Blanc (Bordeaux), Nigel Orr (Caen), Furong Xu (Beijing), Michael Wiescher (Notre Dame), Andrew Simons(AWE).

• Visiting Fellows (Research Councils, Royal Society, British Council. J.Law, M.Kawai, R Crespo, David Owen all here today.

• Advanced Fellows. Drs Zsolt Podalyek, Qiang Zhao and Makito Oi

• Research Students and Postdocs• International Collaboration: Portugal (Lisbon), Spain (Sevilla,

Valencia); Japan, Kyushu Group (Kawai); RIKEN; USA (MSU, IUCF…); France, GANIL; Germany (GSI); Australia

(Canberra). Canada (TRIUMF)……

A Profile of the Surrey Group (2)• Nuclear Astrophysics. MPhys Course in Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics.

OutreachActivities. Royal Society Soiree, “The Halo at the Centre of the Atom” June 1997,

J S Al-Khalili, J A Tostevin, I J Thompson RC Johnson ; Coffee-table book, “Journey to the Centre of the Atom” J S Al-Khalili, et

al; The polonium-210 affair and the media, P. Regan, W. Gelletly, P

Walker….; Articles in New Scientist, the press, News and Views (Nature), Physics

Today, etc. Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Conferences; several

International Nuclear Physics Conferences; TV Series: “The Atom” (J Al-Khalili). Surrey Honorary Degrees Awarded: Akito Arima (Tokyo), Richard Casten

(Yale). Daphne Jackson (OBE), Bill Gelletly (OBE) Jim Al-Khalili (OBE) Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for Science Communication. (J Al-

Khalili) Holweck Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and Societe

Francaise de Physique 2005 (W Gelletly ) Honorary Doctorate of Science by Universite de Bordeaux 1 (W Gelletly)

Nuclear Physics Group University of Surrey, May 2007

Surrey Nuclear Physics

Closing RemarksI would like to end by acknowledging the foundations laid by Lewis way back in 1958. I hope he is proud to see how his

child has matured in the past 50 years! I would also like to publically recognize the enormous

benefit we have derived from having key national figures to take us forward from where Lewis left off. I am referring of course to Daphne Jackson and Bill Gelletly. I hope you will

join me in offering them a round of applause.