Fellow
Dr William Owen Saxton
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is somewhere where women are up for the challenge of physics and where more pursue it to the final year and beyond. We take our own approach and our students do very well - the best results of any College a few years ago.
Degrees and honours
- MA
- PhD
Awards and prizes
- Ernst Ruska Prize (1996)
- Institute of Physics Rayleigh Medal (2018)
Research interests
Digital image analysis for Electron Microscopy, including:
- images of semiconductors (catalysts etc.) at atomic resolution,
- 3-D protein models from noisy images of distorted crystal fragments, via 'correlation averaging',
- imaging electric and magnetic fields,
- measurement and correction of lens aberrations,
- the Gercherg-Saxton algorithm, for phase determination from combined image and diffraction data and
- developing the Semper image processing system, in use for more than 40 years.
Biography
- Senior Research Associate at Department of Materials Science (earlier, Physics).
- Fellow of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ 1983 - 2016; now Emeritus
- Director of Studies in Natural Sciences 1987 to 2016
- At various times, Praelector, Tutor, Admissions Tutor and Senior Tutor .
- Senior Proctor, University of Cambridge 2012-13.
- Founder of Synoptics Ltd (now SDI Ltd) in 1985.