Professor Gwynne James Morgan

Professor Gwynne James Morgan graduated from the University of Manchester in 1961. Following postgraduate work at St Andrews on asymptotic solutions to difference equations he worked for Zenith Radio Research of Chicago continuing his PhD studies with work on the understanding of the transport of heat and electricity in highly disordered materials.

In 1969 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Leeds. In 1973 he was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics and in 1995 to the Cavendish Chair of Physics. His research work has covered a wide range of condensed matter physics including, for example, de Haas-van Alphen experiments, Mössbauer studies of diffusing atoms and electron-electron scattering in metals but the study of transport processes has been a dominating theme including the electronic structure of liquids, amorphous metals and semiconductors.

In recent years the theoretical studies of electronic transport have been enhanced by simulation techniques where, for example, models of amorphous Si containing about a million atoms have been generated leading to successful simulations of the Hall coefficient and transport at finite temperatures. These techniques are now being applied to magnetic multilayers and other nanostructures.