Martin Freer

Martin Freer

Martin Freer is a British physicist, professor, and head of the School of Physics and Astronomy^[1] at the University of Birmingham.^[2] He won the 2010 Rutherford Medal and Prize for establishing the existence of nuclear configurations analogous to molecules.^[3]

Education

BSc (Hons) Maths and Physics, Aston University, 1987.^[4]

PhD in Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham, 1991.^[5]

University of Birmingham

In 2015, Martin Freer became the head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.^[6]

He is also the director of the Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research,^[7] whose purpose is to provide the investment and infrastructure to grow the nuclear expertise and capacity in Birmingham,^[8] as well as the Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute^[9] which seeks to develop sustainable energy solutions in transport, electricity and heat supply.

He featured in the Universities Birmingham Heroes campaign for "championing UK investment in clean-cold technologies amid concern that global demand for cooling and refrigeration will overtake heating by 2060."^[10]

Works

• Hans O. U. Fynbo, Martin Freer, "Viewpoint: Rotations of the Hoyle State in Carbon-12", Physics 4, 94 (2011) | doi:10.1103/Physics.4.94

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