Keith Nugent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Keith Nugent

Australian physicist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1959

Place of Birth: Bath, England, United Kingdom

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Keith Nugent

  • Keith Alexander Nugent (born 28 June 1959) is an Australian physicist.
  • He is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) at La Trobe University and a Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne, Australia specialising in X-ray optics and near-field optics.
  • He was born in Bath, England.
  • He received a first class honours degree from the University of Adelaide and his postgraduate degree from the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1989 Professor Nugent in collaboration with Dr.
  • Stephen Wilkins pioneered a form of X-ray optics known as lobster-eye optics.
  • Using the capillary structure found in lobster eyes, Nugent and Wilkins were able to design telescopes with a 360 degree view of the sky.
  • This was initially planned to be used in a LOBSTER satellite which would, indeed, conduct 360 degree surveys of the sky, though never came to fruition.
  • NASA currently have plans to use the technology to view space objects and phenomena from the International Space Station.In 2001 Nugent was made a Federation Fellow by the Australian Government.
  • This position was renewed in 2006.
  • He also chairs the Sciences Advisory Board of IATIA, a company designed to commercialise some of his inventions.
  • Nugent is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA).
  • He sits on the Advisory Board of the Australian Synchrotron. Since 2005 Nugent has been director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, based at the University of Melbourne, where he has driven the development of coherent X-ray diffraction methods for imaging biological structures.
  • His other research focusses on the complete recovery of phase from intensity and the applications of this to imaging.
  • This work is currently being used to monitor wear in car engines and has potential for research into the treatment of cancer.In 2011 Nugent was appointed part-time Director of the Australian Synchrotron. He was appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) at La Trobe University in January 2013.

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