Edward George Sydney Paige. 18 July 1930 — 20 February 2004

Professor E. G. S. Paige was an applied physicist who spent the first half of his career at the Radar Research Establishment, Malvern, where he made major contributions to the understanding of transport properties in semiconductors. He is, however, particularly celebrated for his work there on acoustic surface waves and their use in electronic systems. In a later period while at Oxford he developed an innovative class of optical systems based on the use of programmable phase plates.