John Pendry

This article is about the British physicist. For hang glider pilot, see John Pendry (hang glider pilot).

John Brian Pendry
FRS HonFInstP
Pendry in 2014
Born (1943-07-04) 4 July 1943 (age 81)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge[1]
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
Institutions
ThesisThe application of pseudopotentials to low energy electron diffraction (1970)
Doctoral advisorVolker Heine
Websitewww3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.pendry
www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics

Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS HonFInstP (born 4 July 1943[2][3]) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indices and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak". He is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College London where he was head of the department of physics (1998–2001) and principal of the faculty of physical sciences (2001–2002). He is an honorary fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, (where he was an undergraduate) and an IEEE fellow.[4] He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience "for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging.", together with Stefan Hell, and Thomas Ebbesen, in 2014.

  1. ^ a b c "'PENDRY, Sir John (Brian)', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press".
  2. ^ Inglesfield, J.; Echenique, P. (2008). "Sir John Pendry FRS". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 20 (30): 300301–300953. Bibcode:2008JPCM...20D0301I. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/20/30/300301. hdl:10261/8438. S2CID 227150117.
  3. ^ J.B. Pendry – Curriculum Vitae (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2009, retrieved 30 September 2009
  4. ^ John Pendry publications indexed by Microsoft Academic