Michael Pepper
| Sir Michael Pepper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 August 1942 |
| Residence |  UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University College London TeraView University of Cambridge Toshiba Research Europe Ltd GEC Hirst Research Centre Plessey |
| Alma mater | University of Reading Cambridge University |
| Doctoral students | Alexander R. Hamilton, Andrew Dzurak, Terry Golding, David Cobden, David Wharam, Trevor Thornton, Chris Ford, Charles Smith,John Cunningham, Giles Davies |
| Other notable students | Michelle Simmons |
| Known for | One Dimensional Electron Transport, Localisation,Quantum Hall effect[1] |
| Influences | Nevill Mott Philip Anderson |
| Notable awards | Hughes Medal (1987) Royal Medal (2005) FREng[2] (2009) |
Sir Michael Pepper, FRS, FREng[3] (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.
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Early life
Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby Pepper. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, a grammar school in the City of Westminster, London that has since closed. He then went on to study physics at the University of Reading and graduated Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1963. He remained at Reading to undertake postgraduate studies and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1967.[4]
In 1987, while an academic of the University of Cambridge, he was granted the status of Master of Arts (MA Cantab). He was awarded a higher doctorate, Doctor of Science (ScD), by Cambridge.[4]
Career
Sir Michael was a physicist at the Plessey Research Laboratories when he formed a collaboration with Sir Nevill Mott, (Nobel Laureate, 1977) which resulted in him commencing research in the Cavendish Laboratory in 1973 on localization in semiconductor structures. He subsequently joined the GEC Hirst Research Centre where he set up joint Cambridge-GEC projects. He was one of three authors on the paper that eventually brought a Nobel prize for the quantum Hall effect to Klaus von Klitzing. Sir Michael formed the Semiconductor Physics research group[5] at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1984, and following a period as Royal Society Warren Research Fellow was appointed to his current role, Professorship of Physics, at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1987. In 1991, he was appointed Managing Director of the newly established Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre, now known as the Cambridge Research Laboratory[6] (CRL) of Toshiba Research Europe.[6] The following year, 2001, he was appointed Scientific Director of TeraView, a company formed by spinning off the terahertz research arm of CRL. He became an honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Science in the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2003.[7] He left his Cambridge Chair to take up the Pender Chair of Nanoelectronics at University College London in 2009[8] and has been associated with many developments in Semiconductor Physics and applications of terahertz radiation.
Honors
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983[9] and was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1982. In 1987 he received the Hughes Medal. Previously he had received the Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society, and the Guthrie Prize of the Institute of Physics both in 1985. The Institute of Physics awarded Sir Michael the first Mott Prize[10] in 2000. He had previously given the first Mott Lecture in 1985. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 2005 for his "work which has had the highest level of influence in condensed matter physics and has resulted in the creation of the modern field of semiconductor nanostructures,"[11] gave the Royal Society's Bakerian Prize Lecture in 2004 and received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's Honours list for services to physics.[12] He was appointed a Fellow[13] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[14] Most recently he has been awarded the 2013 Faraday Medal of the IET.
Research interests
- Current and resistance quantisation phenomena
- Measurement of electron charge
- One-dimensional and zero-dimensional electronic phenomena
- Quantum transport in general
- Localisation and metal-insulator transitions
- Properties of strongly interacting electron gases
- Bose–Einstein condensation in the solid state
- Hybrid magnetic-semiconductor structures
- Medical physics, Physics in medicine and biology
See also
References
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- ↑ University of Otago, School of Pharmacy, Annual Report 2003/2004, accessed 2 July 2006
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Royal Society website accessed 4 July 2006
- ↑ The Mott Medal and Prize
- ↑ Royal Society website: Royal Medal, accessed 6 May 2006
- ↑ Toshiba Research Europe: news article about Pepper's knighthood, accessed 6 May 2006
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- Living people
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- Jewish scientists
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- People educated at St Marylebone Grammar School
- Alumni of the University of Reading
- Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Knights Bachelor
- Royal Medal winners
- English electrical engineers
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