Industry News: Founding director of HORIBA Jobin Yvon IBH awarded for pioneering the UK Fluorescence Lifetime Industry
14 Dec 2020
HORIBA Scientific, one of the global leaders in measurement and analysis solutions for research and industry, and fluorescence solutions, is proud to announce that David Birch, Ph.D., was awarded the 2020 Dennis Gabor Award by the Institute of Physics (IOP).
Dr. Birch is an Emeritus Professor of Photophysics at the University of Strathclyde and a founding Director of HORIBA Jobin Yvon IBH Ltd., one of the earliest corporate spin offs in Scotland. His contributions in the fluorescence sector included research on techniques, multi-disciplinary applications and developing instrumentation for measuring fluorescence lifetimes, including the TCSPC (Time-correlated Single-Photon Counting) technique.