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John Pendry

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British physicist

United KingdomScientistsBorn 1943 · age 83
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Sir John Brian Pendry, is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into metamaterials and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak".

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2016Dan David Prize
2014Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
2013Isaac Newton Medal
2013James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
2012honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University
2010UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
2009Clarivate Citation Laureates
2009Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2009IET Kelvin Lecture
2006Royal Medal
2005Royal Society Bakerian Medal
2005Descartes Prize
1996IOP Dirac Medal
IEEE Fellow
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Knight Bachelor
Royal Society Bakerian Medal

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Sir John Brian Pendry, is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into metamaterials 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, and an IEEE fellow. 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.

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Born 1943 · age 83
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