جون بندري
Sir John Brian Pendry | |
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| وُلِدَ | 4 July 1943 |
| الجنسية | المملكة المتحدة |
| المدرسة الأم | Cambridge University |
| اللقب | Metamaterials 'Superlens' theory Cloaking device |
| السيرة العلمية | |
| المجالات | Physicist |
| الهيئات | Imperial College London |
Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS FInstP (born 4 July 1943[1][2]) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indexes and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak". He is now a chair in 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.
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Career
John Pendry was born in Manchester, where his father was an oil representative, and took a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge after which he was appointed as a research fellow at Downing College between 1969 and 1975. He spent time at Bell Labs in 1972-3 and was head of the theory group at the SERC Daresbury Laboratory from 1975 to 1981, when he was appointed to the chair in theoretical physics at Imperial College, London where he stayed for the rest of his career. Preferring administration to teaching, he was Dean of the Royal College of Science from 1993-6, head of the Physics Department from 1998-2001 and Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences 2001–2. He has authored over 300 research papers and encouraged many experimental inititatives.[3][1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984 and in 2004 he was knighted in the Birthday Honours.[4][5] In 2008, an issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter was dedicated to him in honour of his 65th birthday.
He is married to Pat, a mathematician he met at Cambridge who became a tax inspector. They have no children. His hobbies include playing the piano.[6]
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- ^ J.B. Pendry – Curriculum Vitae, http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics/bio.pdf, retrieved on 2009-09-30
- ^ Ahuja, Anjana (2012), Leading Light, https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/alumni/Public/LeadingLight-37.pdf, retrieved on 2012-07-12
- ^ Knighthood for Imperial theoretical physicist in Birthday Honours list, http://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=5308, retrieved on 2012-07-12
- ^ Prof Sir John Pendry, FRS, Debretts, http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/p/6933/John+Brian.aspx, retrieved on 12 July 2012
- ^ Ahuja 2012