Robin Marshall

Robin Marshall (born 1940) is an Emeritus professor of Physics & Biology in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Education Marshall was educated at Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 followed by a PhD in 1965

Awards and honours Marshall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995

In 1997, he was awarded the Max Born Medal and Prize by the German Physical Society.

Publications Marshall has published a comprehensive history of "Three Centuries of Manchester Physics", in five volumes, covering the scientific, cultural, social and political aspects of the evolution of the subject in the city and its immediate surroundings.

In 2018, he published a book containing letters written mainly by physicists to the Nobel Prize winner William Lawrence Bragg during the first worlds war, providing fresh insight into the deeds and thoughts of scientists active in the front line of battle.

In 2019, he published a history of the discovery of transmutation in Manchester by Ernest Rutherford in 1919.

He has written one work of fiction "The Nobel Conspiracy".