What is Alec Broers, Baron Broers?
{{Infobox Officeholder |honorific-prefix=[[The Right Honourable]] |name=The Lord Broers |image=Official portrait of Lord Broers crop 2.jpg |birth_date={{birth date and age|1938|9|17|df=y}} |birth_place=[[Calcutta]], [[India]] |office=[[List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge|Vice-Chancellor of the<br>University of Cambridge]] |term=1996-2003 |predecessor=[[David Glyndwr Tudor Williams]] |successor=[[Alison Richard]] |chancellor=[[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|HRH The Duke of Edinburgh]] |alma_mater=[[Geelong Grammar School]]<br>[[Melbourne University]]<br>[[University of Cambridge]] }} '''Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers''', [[Royal Society|FRS]] [[FMedSci]] [[Royal Academy of Engineering|FREng]]<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|access-date=2018-05-20|archive-date=2016-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> (born 17 September 1938) is a British [[electrical engineering|electrical engineer]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1063/1.92026| title = Niobium nanobridge dc SQUID| journal = Applied Physics Letters| volume = 37| issue = 7| pages = 656| year = 1980| last1 = Voss | first1 = R. F. | last2 = Laibowitz | first2 = R. B. | last3 = Broers | first3 = A. N. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/T-ED.1981.20599| title = Resolution, overlay, and field size for lithography systems| journal = IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices| volume = 28| issue = 11| pages = 1268–1278| year = 1981| last1 = Broers | first1 = A. N. | s2cid = 47505859}}</ref> In September 2008, Lord Broers took over from [[David Cooksey|Sir David Cooksey]] as [[chairman]] of the [[board of directors]] at the [[Diamond Light Source]], the [[United Kingdom]]'s largest new scientific facility for 45 years. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Broers, Alec}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category