Sir Roger James Elliott FRS[1] (8 December 1928 – 16 April 2018) was a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor, and optical properties of condensed matter.
[2] Born in Chesterfield,[3] Elliott obtained a DPhil in mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Oxford in 1952.
[2] The Institute of Physics awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize jointly to Elliott and Kenneth William Harry Stevens in 1968, and the Guthrie Medal and Prize to Elliott in 1990.
[4] Elliott was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1976 and knighted in 1987.
[3][5] He has been awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by the universities of Paris (1983), Bath (1991), and Essex (1993).