Professor Edward George Sydney Paige FRS, known as Ted Paige, was a British physicist and engineer.
19 Facts About Ted Paige
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The family did not have running water until Ted Paige was five years old, and did not have electricity until some time later.
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From 1935 to 1941, Ted Paige attended Sandhurst primary school in Kent.
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Ted Paige eventually decided that military regimentation did not appeal to him.
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Ted Paige performed experiments on his own and created explosives.
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At first his scientific interests were focused on biology, but when the school hired a master, Leslie Elliott, to teach physics and chemistry, Paige was attracted to those subjects.
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Ted Paige earned a British Association for the Advancement of Science Exhibition.
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Indeed, Ted Paige was the first doctoral student that Mitchell ever supervised.
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Ted Paige began working at that institution in 1955 with the title of Junior Research Fellow to the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer.
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In 1966 Ted Paige went to Copenhagen, where he spent six months as a visiting professor teaching a course on solid state plasmas.
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Ted Paige teamed up with Dr Tom McLean, and together they wrote twenty papers on germanium.
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In 1970, Ted Paige formed a team, the UK SAW Liaison Group, that engaged in research and development into surface acoustic wave devices.
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In 1977 Ted Paige became the Chair of Electrical Engineering at Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College, titles he retained until 1997, which involved a shift in focus from physics to engineering and from research to a com bination of research and teaching.
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Ted Paige was diagnosed with HFE hereditary haemochromatosis in 1996 a genetic disorder that creates iron overload in the body.
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From 2000 until he died in 2004, Ted Paige was a director of the Haemochromatosis Society, a group founded in 1990 to help with awareness and research into genetic haemochromatosis.
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Ted Paige used his statistical expertise to help the society to better survey and document the disease.
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Ted Paige died of liver cancer in 2004 which was caused by his genetic condition.
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Ted Paige was married to Helen Gill and they had four children.
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In 1967 Ted Paige was named a Fellow of the Institute of Physics; in 1977, a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford; in 1978, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers; in 1983, a Fellow of the Royal Society; in 1997, a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow.