Biograph
James Floyd Scott was born in Beverly, New Jersey, in 1942. After receiving a B. A. from Harvard, he went to Ohio State and completed his Ph. D in 1966. Afterwards, he joined Bell Telephone Labs. Over the next six years, he emphasized studies of phase transitions, and in this way, drifted into ferroelectrics. In 1972, he was appointed full professor of physics at the University of Colorado, where he remained for more than 20 years. In 1991, Scott moved to Australia as dean of science, first at RMIT (Melbourne) and later at the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney). Although busy as a dean, he continued to publish papers in Nature and other high-impact journals. In 1997, he received both a Humboldt Prize from Germany and appointment as the SONY Corporation Chair of Science in Yokohama, where he continued his work on ferroelectric memories (FRAMs). In 1999, he was appointed professor of ferroics at Cambridge University. In 2015, he was appointed professor at University of ST-Andrews. He received the Monkasho Award from Japan in 2001 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2008. He was elected the Member of Academy of Sciences, Slovenia, in 2011. He has published 5 books and more than 900 journal articles. His publications have more than 42,000 citations, and the H-index has reached 86. His Book of Ferroelectric Memories (Springer, Heidelberg, 2000) has been translated into Japanese (Springer-Japan) and Chinese (Tsinghua Press).