Roger James Elliott

Sir Roger James Elliott (8 December 1928 – 16 April 2018) was a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor, and optical properties of condensed matter. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize, the Guthrie Medal and Prize, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by the universities of Paris, Bath, and Essex.

Life Born in Chesterfield, Elliott's father was a policeman, who died of tuberculosis when Elliott was three.

The Institute of Physics awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize jointly to Elliott and Kenneth William Harry Stevens in 1968, and the Guthrie Medal and Prize to Elliott in 1990. Elliott was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1976 and knighted in 1987. He has been awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by the universities of Paris (1983), Bath (1991), and Essex (1993).