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Stuart Parkin
Physicist

Stuart Parkin

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Spintronic materials that helped expand hard-drive storage.

Magnetic coupling

Born
9 December 1955
Birthplace
Watford

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Stuart Parkin

British experimental physicist whose work on thin magnetic layers connected basic materials research with computer storage.

Early life

Cambridge

Studied at Trinity College and completed a doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1980.

Career

  1. 1982

    IBM

    Joined as a postdoctoral fellow and became a permanent researcher the next year.

  2. 1999

    IBM Fellow

    Received the company’s highest technical honour.

  3. 2014

    Millennium Technology Prize

    Recognised for spintronics innovations.

Contributions

Magnetic coupling

Discovered oscillating coupling between magnetic layers separated by nonmagnetic material.

Beyond work

Family

Married chemist Claudia Felser.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: MPI für Mikrostrukturphysik / Marco Warmuth. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.