Michael Pepper
Appearance
Michael Pepper IOP Newton Medal (2019) | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University College London TeraView University of Cambridge Toshiba Research Europe Ltd GEC Hirst Research Centre Plessey |
Doctoral students | Alexander R. Hamilton |
Other notable students | Michelle Simmons |
Sir Michael Pepper nanostructures.
Early life
Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby Pepper. He was educated at
postgraduate studies and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1967.[4]
In 1987, while an academic of the
higher doctorate, Doctor of Science (ScD), by Cambridge.[4]
Career
Sir Michael was a physicist at the
Nobel Laureate, 1977) which resulted in his commencing research in the Cavendish Laboratory in 1973 on localisation 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 (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. He sits on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies.[9]
Honors
He was elected a Fellow of the
Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal.[14]
Research interests
- resistance quantisationphenomena
- 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
Media appearances
- What is One Degree (10 January 2011) – Interviewed by his former PhD student Ben Miller.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "List of Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Highest honour for physicist". UNSW Newsroom. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
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- "Fractional quantum Hall effects". Physics World. 2 March 2000. Archived from the original on 29 August 2008.
- ^ a b "PEPPER, Sir Michael". Who's Who 2014. A & C Black. December 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ^ "Semiconductor Physics Group". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Cambridge Research Laboratory". Toshiba. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ University of Otago, School of Pharmacy, Annual Report 2003/2004. Retrieved 2 July 2006
- ^ "Professor Sir Michael Pepper elected to The Royal Academy of Engineering". London Centre for Nanotechnology. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ^ "Sir Michael biography". Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ Royal Society website. Retrieved 4 July 2006
- ^ "Mott medal recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ Royal Society website: Royal Medal. Retrieved 6 May 2006
- ^ Toshiba Research Europe: news article about Pepper's knighthood Archived 12 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 May 2006
- ^ "2019 Institute of Physics Awards — Department of Physics". University of Cambridge. 10 July 2019.