Stuart Parkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stuart Parkin

British physicist

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1955

Place of Birth: Watford, England, United Kingdom

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (born 9 December 1955) is an experimental physicist, IBM Fellow and manager of the magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
He is also a consulting professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University and director of the IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center, which was formed in 2004.He is a pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, and has made discoveries into the behaviour of thin-film magnetic structures that were critical in enabling recent increases in the data density and capacity of computer hard-disk drives.
For these discoveries, he was awarded the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize. Since 1 April 2014, Parkin is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and a professor at the Institute of Physics at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.