Athene Donald

Dame Athene Donald
DBE FRS HonFInstP HonFRSC
Athene Donald in 2013
7th Master of Churchill College, Cambridge
In office
2014–2024
Preceded byDavid Wallace
Succeeded bySharon Peacock
Personal details
Born
Athene Margaret Griffith

(1953-05-15) 15 May 1953 (age 71)[1]
London, England
Residence(s)Cambridge, England
EducationCamden School for Girls
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
SpouseMatthew J. Donald[1]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisElectron microscopy of grain boundary embrittled systems (1977)
Athene Donald's voice
from the BBC programme The Life Scientific, 4 June 2013.[2]
Websitewww.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/donalda Edit this at Wikidata

Dame Athene Margaret Donald DBE FRS HonFInstP HonFRSC (née Griffith; born 15 May 1953)[1][3] is a British physicist.[4][5] She is Professor Emerita of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and former Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

  1. ^ a b c Anon (2024). "Donald, Prof. Dame Athene Margaret". Who's Who (176th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2736. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U13890. ISBN 9781399409452. OCLC 1402257203. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Athene Donald". The Life Scientific. 4 June 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue EC/1999/13 Donald, Athene Margaret". London, UK: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Desert Island Discs with Athene Donald". Desert Island Discs. 22 March 2009. BBC. Radio 4.
  5. ^ Donald, A.; Jacobsen, S.D. (28 June 2013). "Dr. Athene Donald: Experimental Physicist, University of Cambridge". In-Sight (2.A): 85–97.
  6. ^ "University Council". Archived from the original on 8 November 2011.
  7. ^ "University of Cambridge web page". Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.
  8. ^ Prof Dame Athene Donald, DBE, FRS, Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  9. ^ Athene Donald's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ^ Jenkins, P.J.; Donald, A.M. (1998). "Gelatinisation of starch: A combined SAXS/WAXS/DSC and SANS study". Carbohydrate Research. 308 (1–2): 133. doi:10.1016/S0008-6215(98)00079-2.
  11. ^ Jenkins, P. J.; Donald, A.M. (1995). "The influence of amylose on starch granule structure". International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 17 (6): 315–21. doi:10.1016/0141-8130(96)81838-1. PMID 8789332.
  12. ^ Krebs, M.R.H.; MacPhee, C.E.; Miller, A.F.; Dunlop, I.E.; Dobson, C.M.; Donald, A.M. (2004). "The formation of spherulites by amyloid fibrils of bovine insulin". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (40): 14420–14424. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10114420K. doi:10.1073/pnas.0405933101. PMC 521966. PMID 15381766.