Allan Dawson Boardman was a British physicist, known for his work on surface plasmons and , especially , solitons, magneto-optics and negative refracting metamaterials. He was a theorist and numerical analyst in these areas, especially magneto-optics and metamaterials. In 2006 he was made a fellow of the Optical Society of America for his contributions in these fields and for "exemplary leadership and service to the optics community". Boardman died on 24 November 2018.