Richard Friend
British physicist · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Born 1953 · age 73
Sir Richard Henry Friend is a British physicist who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020 and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. Friend's research concerns the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors.
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He also serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore.