{{short description|British physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = MBE | name = Cyril Isenberg | fields = Physics | workplaces =University of Kent | alma_mater = }}
'''Cyril Isenberg''' is an English physicist at the University of Kent, where he is an Honorary Lecturer.<ref>[http://www.eda.kent.ac.uk/school/staff_detail.aspx?id=263 Faculty directory], University of Kent, retrieved 2012-07-04.</ref>
Isenberg is known for pioneering the analog computing possibilities of soap bubbles; in 2012, his 1976 article on the subject was one of a set of "classic articles" selected by ''American Scientist'' to celebrate their centennial.<ref>{{citation|title=Kent professor Dr Cyril Isenberg cleans up with soap suds theory|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/june/13/kent_professor_isenberg.aspx|date=12 June 2012|publisher=KentOnline}}.</ref><ref>{{citation | last = Isenberg | first = Cyril | issue = 5 | journal = American Scientist | jstor = 27847462 | pages = 514–518 | title = The soap film: an analogue computer | volume = 64 | year = 1976|bibcode = 1976AmSci..64..514I }}. Reprinted in ''American Scientist'', May–June 2012, {{doi|10.1511/2012.96.1}}.</ref> He has also frequently given physics lectures to schoolchildren and appeared in television shows, and is the organizer of the British Physics Olympiad.<ref name="mbe"/> He is the author of books ''The Science of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles'' (Dover, 1978) and ''Physics Experiments and Projects for Students'' (with S. Chomet, Taylor & Francis, 1989 & 1996).
In 1994, Isenberg won the Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his contributions to physics education.<ref name="mbe"/><ref>{{citation|title=Institute of Physics|journal=The Independent|date=29 January 1994|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4632135.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125080606/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4632135.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2013|url-access=subscription }}.</ref> In 2008, he became a Member of the Order of the British Empire.<ref name="mbe">{{citation|title=Kent Physicist awarded MBE|publisher=University of Kent Faculty of Sciences|date=February 2008|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/stms/news/stories/2008/cyril.html|accessdate=2012-07-04}}.</ref>
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