Michael Whelan (scientist)

Michael John Whelan HonFRMS FRS FInstP (born 2 November 1931) is a British scientist.

Whelan completed his PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge under the supervision of Peter Hirsch.

[4][1] He and Archibald Howie won the 1988 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for their contributions to the theory of electron diffraction and microscopy, and its application to the study of lattice defects in crystals".

[5] He also received the 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award in Physical Sciences from the Microscopy Society of America[6] and the 1965 C.V.

[7] In 2001 he was elected honorary fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society.