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Oxford Instruments: High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures

In: Post-Innovation Performance

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  • Luke Georghiou
  • J. Stanley Metcalfe
  • Michael Gibbons
  • Tim Ray
  • Janet Evans

Abstract

The Oxford Instruments Co., now part of the Oxford Instruments Group plc, gained the Queen’s Award in 1967 for ultra-low-temperature refrigerators and superconducting magnets. The company had been founded in 1959 by Martin Wood who had been working on high magnetic fields in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. The company’s objective was to supply high-field-strength magnets to other laboratories for research purposes. The magnets constructed at this time were iron-free coils and used resistive copper windings to produce magnetic fields in the range 4-8 tesla (40-80 kilogauss). The market for these magnets was severely limited because of the very considerable power and cooling facilities which their operation necessitated. Only ten or so laboratories in the world had such resources. High-field-strength magnets for research in solid-state physics, chemistry and metallurgy would have been much in demand but for these requirements. In November 1961, at a conference in the USA, Martin Wood heard of the advances being made in the development of superconducting alloys and appreciated the commercial opportunity a superconducting magnet system presented.

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  • Luke Georghiou & J. Stanley Metcalfe & Michael Gibbons & Tim Ray & Janet Evans, 1986. "Oxford Instruments: High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Post-Innovation Performance, chapter 25, pages 255-260, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07455-6_30
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07455-6_30
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