British Chartered Physicist and ornithologist
Professor David Norman (born 1949) is a British Chartered Physicist[1] and ornithologist, he has lived in Cheshire since 1978.[2]
Physics
Professor Norman is a former director of synchrotron radiation, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Daresbury Laboratory.[1] He was a visiting professor in surface science at the University of Liverpool.[1]
Ornithology
Since 2005[3] he has been an independent member of the United Kingdom's Rare Breeding Birds Panel[4] and he is a member of the RSPB Council,[4] and chairman of the Merseyside Ringing Group. He is an honorary research associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,[4] spending up to a month each year at their Powdermill Nature Reserve.[2]
He served on the council of English Nature from 1996 to 2002 (and in September 2000 became interim acting chairman for six months).[1][2] He has been chairman of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust[2] and a member of the Editorial Board for Ornithology's journal Ringing & Migration.[1] He was the founder chairman of the Mersey Estuary Conservation Group[1] and Research Committee of the Liverpool Bay Wader Study Group.[1]
In 2002 he was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology's Bernard Tucker Medal "for his outstanding scientific contributions in surveying, nest-recording and ringing birds".[5]
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