Geoff Stedman

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Geoff Stedman
Born
Geoffrey Ernest Stedman

1943 (age 77–78)
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Queen Mary College, University of London
Known forRing lasers
AwardsHector Medal (1994)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury
ThesisIon-lattice interactions in rare earth salts (1968)
Doctoral advisorD.J. Newman

Geoffrey Ernest Stedman (born 1943) is a New Zealand physicist, with research interests including the foundations of relativity, symmetry in quantum mechanics, and ring lasers.[1]

Born in 1943, Stedman attended the University of Canterbury, graduating with a BSc(Hons) in physics in 1965.[1] He subsequently went to Queen Mary College, University of London, where he completed his PhD under Douglas Newman in 1968. After post-doctoral research, also at Queen Mary, Stedman returned to lecture at Canterbury in 1971.[2] He retired in 2003 and was granted the title of emeritus professor.[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1989,[4] and in 1994 he won the society's Hector Medal.[5] He won the Canterbury Research Medal in 2001.[2]

Selected works[]

  • Stedman, G. E. "Ring-laser tests of fundamental physics and geophysics." Reports on progress in physics 60, no. 6 (1997): 615.
  • Pancha, Aasha, T. H. Webb, G. E. Stedman, D. P. McLeod, and K. U. Schreiber. "Ring laser detection of rotations from teleseismic waves." Geophysical Research Letters 27, no. 21 (2000): 3553-3556.
  • Rowe, Clive H., Ulrich K. Schreiber, Steven J. Cooper, B. Tom King, Morrie Poulton, and Geoffrey E. Stedman. "Design and operation of a very large ring laser gyroscope." Applied optics 38, no. 12 (1999): 2516-2523.
  • Schreiber, Ulrich K., Clive H. Rowe, Douglas N. Wright, Steven J. Cooper, and Geoffrey E. Stedman. "Precision stabilization of the optical frequency in a large ring laser gyroscope." Applied optics 37, no. 36 (1998): 8371-8381.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "E. Prof. Geoff Stedman". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Kirk, Bob (1 March 2002). "Professor Stedman recipient of 2001 Research Medal". Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  3. ^ Hartley, Lynette (28 August 2003). "Teaching a 'privilege' – retiring physics professor" (PDF). Chronicle. University of Canterbury. 38 (13): 2. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  4. ^ "The Academy: S–U". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 October 2014.

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