Tudor Jenkins Laboratories - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales.
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N 52° 24.947 W 004° 03.955
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Institute of Mathematics and Physics (IMAP) Building at Aberystwyth University has been named after Dr Tudor Jenkins, an “inspiring physics teacher” The University is located in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, South Wales.
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Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/28/2015
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"Addressing an audience of staff and students at IMAP, Professor McMahon said: “It gives me great pleasure to open the new Tudor Jenkins Laboratories. It is clear from the number of staff who have gone on to work at the Institute after studying under Dr Jenkins, that he was an inspirational figure who was committed to the teaching of physics at all levels. It is therefore very fitting that these bright new teaching laboratories should carry his name.” Text source; (
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Dr TUDOR E. JENKINS, MA, DPhil (Oxon), FInstP
Born 18/09/49 – 03/11/09
"Dr. Tudor Jenkins, who died after a short illness on 3rd November 2009, aged 60, was an inspiring university teacher, and a physicist who developed new ways of studying the electronic properties of solids using optical spectroscopy.
Tudor was born in Treherbert, Rhondda Fawr on 18 September 1949. He was the son of Morgan Jenkins, an electrical engineer in the local colliery, and his wife Violet (née Pearson). Educated at Rhondda County Grammar School, Porth, he was the first member of his family to attend University, reading Physics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was an Open Scholar. He joined the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, where he obtained a D.Phil. in the electronic properties of insulating solids under the supervision of Dr. J.W. Hodby. Tudor subsequently spent four years as a post-doctoral research assistant in Cardiff University, establishing Raman scattering techniques for the study of orientational disorder in molecular solids.
He was appointed Lecturer in micro-electronics at St.Andrew's University in 1979, where his interest in semiconductors began and where he also pioneered the application of early microcomputers to undergraduate teaching and research. In 1983, he joined the Department of Physics at Aberystwyth, establishing a research group studying the properties of ultra-thin films on solids. Tudor became a Senior Lecturer in 1990 and a Reader in Physics in 2007. It was in Aberystwyth that his inspirational qualities as a teacher came to the fore, receiving the university's 2005 award for Teaching Excellence." Text Source; (
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