David Wallace (physicist)

Not to be confused with David Wallace (b. 7 Oct 1976), the philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford.

Sir David Wallace
File:Higgs, Peter (1929)2.jpg David Wallace (left) and Peter Higgs
Born	David James Wallace (1945-10-07) 7 October 1945
Institutions	University of Cambridge Princeton University University of Southampton Loughborough University University of Edinburgh EPCC Harrow School Institute of Physics
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Thesis	Applications of current algebras and chiral symmetry breaking (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Higgs
Doctoral students	Christopher Bishop Neil Gunther Simon Hands Beate Schmittmann
Notable awards	Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Deputy Lieutenant Harkness Fellowship Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Spouse	Elizabeth Anne Yeats
Website chu.cam.ac.uk/fellows/111-David-Wallace

Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, FRSE, FREng (born 7 October 1945) is a British physicist and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University from 1994 to 2005, and the Master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 2006 to 2014.

Early life and education

Wallace was born on 7 October 1945. He was educated at Hawick High School in Hawick, Borders, Scotland and went to the University of Edinburgh where he earned a degree in Mathematical Physics and a PhD in Elementary particle theory, under the supervision of Peter Higgs.

Career

After postdoctoral research work as a Harkness Fellow at Princeton University, Wallace became a physics lecturer at the University of Southampton in 1972.

In 1979, he became Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He became Director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and in 1996 he was awarded the CBE for his computing work.

Wallace is currently Vice-President for Physical Sciences of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he was made a Fellow of in 1982. He was formerly Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society and Chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences. From 1994 to January 2006 he was the Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University. From 2006 to 2011 he was the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Wallace has also been President of the Institute of Physics and Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998, and was a commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 from 2001-2011.

Personal

He has a wife, Elizabeth and a daughter, Sara.

External links

• Cam.ac.uk: "Master Appointed to Churchill College
• Number-10.gov.uk: "Master Of Churchill College, Cambridge" (via The National Archives, UK)
• Archive Version of Loughbourgh University: Vice-Chancellor's Office at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 February 2005)
• University of Cambridge: "Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences appointed"

Academic offices
Preceded by Professor Sir David Davies	Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University 1994–2005	Succeeded by Professor Shirley Pearce
Preceded by Sir John Kingman	Director of Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences 2006–2011	Succeeded by Professor John Toland
Preceded by Sir John Boyd	Master of Churchill College 2006–2014	Succeeded by Professor Dame Athene Donald