About Alan Windle
Born 1942. Alan Windle is a British engineer.
Alan Hardwick Windle (born 20 June 1942) FRS is a British material scientist, and Chair of Materials Science at Cambridge University.
He earned a BSc from Imperial College London, and a PhD from University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer in materials science from 1975 to 1992, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Works A First Course in Crystallography 1978 Liquid Crystalline Polymers with Prof A M Donald, 1992; with Dr S Hanna and Prof A M Donald, 2006
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