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Honour for Professor Bob Newport
November 2007
Bob Newport, Professor of Materials Physics in the School of Physical Sciences, has been awarded a DSc by the University of Leicester.
The criteria for such awards state that the person ‘must be eminent in his/her field and have produced published work constituting a sustained, original and distinguished contribution to knowledge. Candidates are expected to have a national, and usually an international, reputation in their field and to have produced seminal publications which have led to significant developments in the area of research.’
It could be viewed as a ‘lifetime achievement’ award, although Bob is adamant that he wouldn’t want that analogy to be stretched very far at all. His research interests have varied as his career of three decades has progressed, but his team are currently working on bioactive glasses which have potential for tissue regeneration and as antibacterial coatings. The driving motivation behind all their work is the desire to understand at the atomic scale why materials behave as they do.