Harold Aspden Professorship

Professor Jeremy J Baumberg FRS, FRSC appointed the Harold Aspden Professor.

This new professorship is named after Dr Harold Aspden (Trinity 1950) – IBM’s Director of Patent Operations in Europe and a dedicated scientist who passed away in 2011.  After his death, his wife Wendy had made provision in her will for the establishment of a new professorship in the Cavendish Laboratory  and as a result, the £2.5 million legacy gift she left established the Aspden Professorship of Fundamental Physics in her husband’s memory.

Dr. H. Aspden (1927-2011)

Harold Aspden PhD.(Cantab), B.Sc., F.I.E.E., F.I.Mech.E., M.Inst P., F.I.C.P.A., C.,Eng., C.Phys. Sen.Wh.Sc., is considered by many as a brilliant theoretical physicist, electrical engineer and inventor from Southampton, England. His career in patents resulted in his being I.B.M.’s Director of European Patents for many years.