Awards & Winners

Michael Kelly

Date of Birth 14-May-1949
Place of Birth New Plymouth
(New Zealand, Taranaki Region)
Nationality New Zealand
Profession Physicist
Michael Joseph Kelly FRS is a New Zealand-British physicist. He is Professor of Solid State Electronics and Nanoscale Science in the Division of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993 and won its Hughes Medal in 2006. He was formerly the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Communities and Local Government. Born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Kelly studied at the Victoria University of Wellington for a BSc and MSc. He came to England in 1971 to study for a PhD at Cambridge under Volker Heine.

Awards by Michael Kelly

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2006


Hughes Medal
(for his work in the fundamental physics of electron transport and the creation of practical electronic devices which can be deployed in advanced systems)