Performance · Production
Chris Leighton
Chris Leighton is credited on 61 releases across 16 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1975–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
61
Pressings credited
16
Albums
6
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
Christopher Leighton is a British physicist. He is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. Leighton holds a BSc in physics (1994) and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (1998) from Durham University. From 1998 to 2001, he was a postdoc in material physics at the University of California, San Diego. Leighton was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 and an IEEE Fellow in 2020. His research revolves around the electronic and magnetic properties of a wide range of novel materials, including complex oxides, oxide heterostructures, metallic spintronics, complex alloys, organic conductors, and photovoltaics.
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Credited work
61 releases · 16 albums · active 1975–2025
- Performance · 100
- Production · 1
Studios: Legend Studios · The Music Farm · The Music Source · Bear Creek Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ironhorse
- Union (17)
- Rachel Harrington
- Brownsmith
- Bob Haworth
- Redeker (2)
- Dudley Taft
- Michael Peterson
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