John Pethica

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Sir John Bernard Pethica FRS (* 1953 in Birmingham , England ) is a British physicist who became known in particular for the invention of nanoindentation and the further development of atomic force microscopes .

Life

After attending St. Ambrose College in Traffold , he first studied medicine at the University of Paris from 1970 to 1971 before studying natural science at the University of Cambridge and graduating in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science (BS Natural Science). After earning a Philosophiae Doctor in surface technology from the University of Cambridge, he was a research scientist at the electrical engineering group Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) from 1980 to 1982 .

He was then a lecturer in physics at the University of Cambridge from 1982 to 1987 and at the same time from 1984 to 1998 founder and president of Nano Instruments Inc. in the USA . After teaching physics at the University of Oxford from 1987 to 1996 , he held a professorship for materials science there between 1996 and 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999 .

Subsequently, he was from 2001 to 2005 Professor of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and was at the same time the founder and director of the Research Center for adaptive nanostructure sciences and nanotechnology ( Center for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nano Devices ). Pethica, who received the Hughes Medal in 2001 , is also a member of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), established in 2003 .

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he dealt with the invention of nanoindentation, a method of materials testing to determine the hardness of materials on small length scales ( nanometers (nm) ). In addition, he dealt with the further development of atomic force microscopes.

Since 2007 John Pethica has been Chief Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington . In 2009 he became not only Vice President, but also Secretary for Physics of the Royal Society. He has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 2011 .

Pethica chaired the Royal Society's working group, which in 2010 summarized the state of research on climate change .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: John Bernard Pethica. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Climate change: A Summary of the Science. The Royal Society, September 30, 2010. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pethica, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pethica, John Bernard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England