# Geoffrey Copland
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| birth_name = Geoffrey Malcolm Copland
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| fields = [Physics](/source/Physics)
| workplaces = [Yale University](/source/Yale_University)
[Queen Mary College](/source/Queen_Mary_College)
[Queen Elizabeth College](/source/Queen_Elizabeth_College)
[Goldsmiths College](/source/Goldsmiths%2C_University_of_London)
[Polytechnic of Central London](/source/Polytechnic_of_Central_London)
[University of Westminster](/source/University_of_Westminster)
[Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance](/source/Trinity_Laban_Conservatoire_of_Music_and_Dance)
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| education = [Fitzmaurice Grammar School](/source/Fitzmaurice_Grammar_School)
| alma_mater = [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) (MA, DPhil)
| thesis_title = Some hyperfine interactions in solids
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| thesis_year = 1967
| doctoral_advisor = [Brebis Bleaney](/source/Brebis_Bleaney)[
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'''Geoffrey Malcolm Copland''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|CPhys|FInstP|FRSA}} (born 28 June 1942) is a British physicist and former vice-chancellor of the [University of Westminster](/source/University_of_Westminster).][{{Who's Who | title=Copland, Geoffrey Malcolm | author=Anon|id = U11849 | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U11849|year = 2015 | edition = online [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press)}}][
==Education==
Copland was educated at [Fitzmaurice Grammar School](/source/Fitzmaurice_Grammar_School) in [Bradford-on-Avon](/source/Bradford-on-Avon). He was an undergraduate student at [Merton College, Oxford](/source/Merton_College%2C_Oxford) where he read [Physics](/source/Physics) from 1960.][{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=522}}] After being awarded a [first class undergraduate degree](/source/British_undergraduate_degree_classification) in 1963, he remained in Oxford for his [DPhil](/source/DPhil), which was awarded in 1967 for research on [hyperfine structure](/source/hyperfine_structure) supervised by [Brebis Bleaney](/source/Brebis_Bleaney).[{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:367f6af5-ba8c-42ab-8635-58ac4c402d5d|doi=|title=Some hyperfine interactions in solids|first= Geoffrey Malcolm|last=Copland|date=1967|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.732014}}|website=ox.ac.uk|oclc=1063609593}}]
==Career and research==
Following his doctorate, Copland spent two years at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University), before returning to the UK in 1969 as a [lecturer](/source/lecturer) in physics at [Queen Mary College](/source/Queen_Mary_College).[{{Official URL}}]
===Awards and honours===
He was awarded a [Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts) (FRSA) in 1991,[{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/16_06_07_hons_main.pdf|title=Honours List|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=[BBC](/source/BBC)}}] The main-belt asteroid [9193 Geoffreycopland](/source/9193_Geoffreycopland), discovered on 10 March 1992 by [Duncan Steel](/source/Duncan_Steel) at [Siding Spring Observatory](/source/Siding_Spring_Observatory) is named after him.
==Personal life==
Copland has been twice married, firstly in 1967 to Janet Mary Todd, with whom he had a son and a daughter; their marriage was dissolved in 1985, and that year Copland remarried, to Dorothy Joy Harrison.