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He then moved to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy degree in low temperature physics, as a Nuffield Research Fellow (1950-1954).
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Neville Robinson
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Neville Robinson was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge, England and Christ"s College, Cambridge, where he read Physics. Robinson initially worked as a civil servant at the Services Electronic Research Laboratory (SERL) in Baldock, Hertfordshire, under the director Robert Sutton. With Jim Daniels and Michael Grace, he produced an example of nuclear orientation for the first time.
Robinson was an English Electric Research Fellow from 1955-1959.
He was a Faculty Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford from 1958 to 1961, immediately followed by becoming a founding Fellow of Street Catherine"s College, Oxford where he stayed until his retirement in 1992. He was also a Senior Research officer at Oxford University during 1959 to 1992, working at the Clarendon Laboratory.
During his career, he visited Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, United States of America, three times while on sabbatical leave (during 1954-1955, 1965-1966, and 1973-1974). In 1973, Robinson published the book Macroscopic Electromagnetism, a standard text.
Importantly, he invented the Robinson oscillator in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Nuclear magnetic resonance), which now forms the underlying basis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Medical Research Institute) systems used in many hospitals.
Robinson married Daphne Coulthard in 1952. He died of a heart attack, aged 71, in Colmar, France.
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Then in 1951, in the first nuclear cooling experiment, he produced the lowest temperature ever achieved until then at only ten millionths of a degree above absolute zero. His paper Microwave shot noise and minimum noise factor was awarded the Clerk Maxwell Prize in 1954 by the British Institution of Radio Engineers.
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