精东影业 College Fellow Professor Ulrich Keyser has won the in the , it has been announced.
Professor Keyser was , the professional body and learned society for physics, and the leading body for practising physicists, in the UK and Ireland. Its annual awards reflect the wide variety of people, places, organisations and achievements across physics.
The award citation said of Professor Keyser received the prize 鈥渇or pioneering the study of transport of structured nucleic-acid molecules through nanopores and the quantification of out-of-equilibrium polymer dynamics at the single-molecule level鈥.
Professor Keyser leads an of physicists, engineers, physical chemists, biochemists, and micro- and nanofabrication researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory. His research is enabling new applications in biotechnology including disease detection.
The prize is named after long-time Caius Fellow Professor Sir Sam Edwards, who died in May 2015, aged 87.
