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{{short description|British physicist}}
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[[File:Freer-martin-2.jpg|thumbnail|Martin Freer]]
'''Martin Freer''' is a British [[Nuclear Physicist]], [[professor]], and was previously head of the School of Physics and Astronomy<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/physics/freer-martin.aspx|title=Professor Martin Freer, School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}}</ref> at the [[University of Birmingham]].<ref name="auto"/> He won the 2010 [[Rutherford Medal and Prize]] ''for establishing the existence of nuclear configurations analogous to molecules.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/rutherford/medallists/page_43966.html|title=2010 Rutherford medal and prize|website=www.iop.org}}</ref>
==Education==
Education: PhD in Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham, 1991.<ref>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/physics/freer-martin.aspx</ref>▼
BSc (Hons) Maths and Physics, Aston University, 1987.<ref name="auto"/>
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==University of Birmingham==
From 2015 until 1 July 2019, Martin Freer was the head of the School of [[Physics]] and [[Astronomy]] at the University of Birmingham.<ref name="auto"/>
He is also the director of the Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.np.ph.bham.ac.uk/staff/freerm/|title=Martin Freer, Professor of Nuclear Physics|website=www.np.ph.bham.ac.uk}}</ref> whose purpose is to provide the investment and infrastructure to grow the nuclear expertise and capacity in Birmingham,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/nuclear/about-us/index.aspx|title=About Us - Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}}</ref> as well as the Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/energy/index.aspx|title=Birmingham Energy Institute|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}}</ref> which seeks to develop sustainable energy solutions in transport, electricity and heat supply.
He featured in the Universities Birmingham Heroes campaign for "''championing UK investment in clean-cold technologies amid concern that global demand for cooling and refrigeration will overtake heating by 2060.''"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/heroes/energy-crisis.aspx|title=Energy Crisis|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk}}</ref>
==Works==
*Hans O. U. Fynbo, Martin Freer, [http://physics.aps.org/articles/v4/94 "Viewpoint: Rotations of the Hoyle State in Carbon-12"], ''Physics'' 4, 94 (2011) | {{doi|10.1103/Physics.4.94}}
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