Stuart Parkin
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Stuart Parkin FRS is a British experimental physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Born in Watford, Parkin received his BA degree in physics and theoretical physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1977. He was elected to a research fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory and obtained his doctorate in 1980. Parkin then worked for two years on a Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship at the Université Paris-Sud before joining IBM Research in 1982, originally working in superconducting materials, researching organic and ceramic high temperature superconductors.
Later he moved into the study of magnetic thin-film structures, and made important contributions to understanding of the Giant magnetoresistive effect in polycrystalline layers.
For this and related work, Dr. Parkin shared both the American Physical Society’s International New Materials Prize in 1994 and the European Physical Society’s Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize in 1997.
Parkin was named an IBM Fellow in 1999, and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000.
