Awards & Winners

Harold Hopkins

Date of Birth 06-December-1918
Place of Birth Leicester
(United Kingdom, England, East Midlands, Leicestershire)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Physicist
Harold Horace Hopkins FRS was a renowned British physicist. His Wave Theory of Aberrations, is central to all modern optical design and provides the mathematical analysis which enables the use of computers to create the wealth of high quality lenses available today. In addition to his theoretical work, his many inventions are in daily use throughout the world. These include zoom lenses, coherent fibre-optics and more recently the rod-lens endoscopes which 'opened the door' to modern key-hole surgery. He was the recipient of many of the world's most prestigious awards and was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize. His citation on receiving the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1984 stated: "In recognition of his many contributions to the theory and design of optical instruments, especially of a wide variety of important new medical instruments which have made a major contribution to clinical diagnosis and surgery."

Awards by Harold Hopkins

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1984


Rumford Medal
(In recognition of his many contributions to the theory and design of optical instruments, especially of a wide variety of important new medical instruments which have made a major contribution to clinical diagnosis and surgery.)