Cyril Isenberg MBE is an English physicist at the University of Kent, where he is an Honorary Lecturer.
[1] 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.
[2][3] He has also frequently given physics lectures to schoolchildren and appeared in television shows, and is the organizer of the British Physics Olympiad.
[4] 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.