Gillian Gehring | |
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Born | Gillian Anne Gehring 19 May 1941 Nottingham, England, UK |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Manchester University of Oxford |
Spouse | Karl Gehring |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Magnetism |
Institutions | St Hugh's College, Oxford University of Sheffield University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Some problems in the theory of ferromagnetism (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | Walter Marshall |
Gillian Anne Gehring OBE HonFInstP (born Gillian Anne Murray, 19 May 1941) is a British academic physicist, and emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield.[1] She was the second woman in the UK to become a Professor of Physics and in 2009 won the Nevill Mott Medal and Prize.