1. Sir Richard Henry Friend was born on 18 January 1953 and is a British physicist who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020 and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore.
Richard Friend serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Foundation of Singapore.
Richard Friend was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining a PhD in 1979 under the supervision of Abe Yoffe.
Richard Friend's research has been applied to development of polymer field effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic diodes, optically pumped lasing and directly printed polymer transistors.
Richard Friend pioneered the study of organic polymers and the electronic properties of molecular semiconductors.
Richard Friend is one of the principal investigators in the new Cambridge-based Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on nanotechnology and co-founder of Cambridge Display Technology and Plastic Logic.
Richard Friend was knighted for "services to physics" in the 2003 Birthday Honours.
Richard Friend received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2006.
In 2009, Richard Friend was awarded the Institute of Physics Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize with Dr David Ffye.
In 2010, Richard Friend was elected as one of the three laureates of Millennium Technology Prize for the development of plastic electronics.
Richard Friend is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Richard Friend was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002.
In 2013, Richard Friend was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to science, engineering, and commercialization of organic polymer semiconductor devices.
Richard Friend has made a major contribution to understanding the conditions for metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating ground states in organic charge transfer salts.
Richard Friend made the first observations of de Haas van Alphen oscillations in magnetic susceptibility in an organic metal.