Robin Devenish

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=February 2020}} {{short description|British physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * University of Oxford * DESY}} | patrons = | alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Terry Wyatt<ref name="wyattphd">{{cite thesis |degree=DPhil |first=Terence Richard|last=Wyatt |title=A study of the production of b quarks in e+e- annihilation at high energies |publisher=University of Oxford |year=1983 |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph012151070|authorlink=Terry Wyatt}}</ref> Phillip Hallam-Baker | notable_students = | known_for = Deep inelastic scattering<ref name="deep"/> | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Max Born Prize (2009) | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }}'''Robin Devenish''' was a physicist at the University of Oxford. An Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Devenish was a former Dean of Hertford College, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor of Physics. He was known for his work in the field of deep inelastic scattering, and was awarded the Max Born Prize in December 2009 for his work in this field, in which he was active until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/International_Bilateral_Awards/The_Max_Born_Medal_and_Prize/Born_medal_winners/page_10389.html|title=Recipients of the Born medal and prize |accessdate=14 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=7006065970}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1142/S0217751X98001670| title = Structure Functions of the Nucleon and Their Interpretation| journal = International Journal of Modern Physics A| volume = 13| issue = 20| pages = 3385–3586| year = 1998| last1 = Cooper-Sarkar | first1 = A. M.| last2 = Devenish | first2 = R. C. E.| last3 = De Roeck | first3 = A.|arxiv = hep-ph/9712301 |bibcode = 1998IJMPA..13.3385C | s2cid = 119509451}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1007/BF01580320| title = Measurement of total and partial photon proton cross sections at 180 GeV center of mass energy| journal = Zeitschrift für Physik C| volume = 63| issue = 3| pages = 391| year = 1994| last1 = Derrick | first1 = M.| last2 = Krakauer | first2 = D.| last3 = Magill | first3 = S.| last4 = Musgrave | first4 = B.| last5 = Repond | first5 = J.| last6 = Schlereth | first6 = J.| last7 = Stanek | first7 = R.| last8 = Talaga | first8 = R. L.| last9 = Thron | first9 = J.| last10 = Arzarello | first10 = F.| last11 = Ayad | first11 = R.| last12 = Bari | first12 = G.| last13 = Basile | first13 = M.| last14 = Bellagamba | first14 = L.| last15 = Boscherini | first15 = D.| last16 = Bruni | first16 = A.| last17 = Bruni | first17 = G.| last18 = Bruni | first18 = P.| last19 = Romeo | first19 = G. C. | last20 = Castellini | first20 = G.| last21 = Chiarini | first21 = M.| last22 = Cifarelli | first22 = L.| last23 = Cindolo | first23 = F.| last24 = Ciralli | first24 = F.| last25 = Contin | first25 = A.| last26 = d'Auria | first26 = S.| last27 = Papa | first27 = C.| last28 = Frasconi | first28 = F.| last29 = Giusti | first29 = P.| last30 = Iacobucci | first30 = G.|bibcode = 1994ZPhyC..63..391D | s2cid = 120262041| url = https://cds.cern.ch/record/260590| url-access = subscription}}</ref>

==Education and early career== Devenish was educated by the Benedictines at St Benedict's School, Ealing before attending St John's College, Cambridge. He joined Oxford in 1979 having held various research positions in UK Universities and at the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg after finishing his doctorate in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/staff/robin-devenish|title=Hertford College/People |accessdate=18 May 2022}}</ref>

With Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Devenish co-authored a book on the subject of deep inelastic scattering, entitled ''Deep Inelastic Scattering''.<ref name="deep">{{cite book | last = Devenish | first = Robin | title = Deep inelastic scattering | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0199602254 }}</ref>

==Awards and honours== The Max Born prize (announced in December 2008) was awarded to Devenish in March 2009. The prize was awarded by the IoP because: "Devenish's work has led to important advances in our understanding of the structure of nucleons, in particular that of the proton. Devenish played a key role in the determination of the structure functions of the proton and the derivation of the quark and gluon densities at small Bjorken x, which has led to major advances in the understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/|title=Announcement of award on University of Oxford website |accessdate=15 December 2009}}</ref>

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