Education
Bramwell studied chemistry at Oxford University, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 1989.
Bramwell studied chemistry at Oxford University, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 1989.
He is known for his experimental discovery of spin ice with M. J. Harris and his calculation of a critical exponent observed in two-dimensional magnets with P. C. West. Holdsworth. A probability distribution for global quantities in complex systems, the "Bramwell-Holdsworth-Pinton (BHP) distribution", (to be implemented in Mathematica) is named after him. In 2009 Bramwell"s group was one of several to report experimental evidence of magnetic monopole excitations in spin ice.
He coined the term "magnetricity" to describe currents of these effective magnetic "monopoles" in condensed-matter systems
He was a professor of physical chemistry at University College London from 2000-2009, before becoming a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He shared the 2012 Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division "for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice".
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Therapeutic Community West. T.; P. R. T. J. F. T. T. R.