Michael Pepper
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Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS FInstP (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist.
Sir Michael was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983[1]. He formed the Semiconductor Physics research group[2] at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1985, and was appointed to his current role, the Professorship of Physics, at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1987, the year in which he received the Hughes Medal. In 1991, he was appointed Managing Director of the newly established Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre, now known as the Cambridge Research Laboratory[3] (CRL) of Toshiba Research Europe[3]. The Institute of Physics awarded Sir Michael the Mott Medal[4] in 2000. 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[5]. 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."[6] and received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's Honours list for services to physics. [7]
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[edit] 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
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[edit] Controversy
A web site purporting to have been created by a prospective student of the University of Cambridge has publicly accused Sir Michael of blocking his application to become a member of a college of the university, and portrays this as part of a wider issue of "corruption" within the university.[8]
[edit] References:
- ^ Royal Society website accessed 4 July 2006
- ^ Semiconductor Physics Group
- ^ a b Cambridge Research Laboratory
- ^ The Mott Medal and Prize
- ^ University of Otago, School of Pharmacy, Annual Report 2003/2004, accessed 2 July 2006
- ^ Royal Society website: Royal Medal, accessed 6 May 2006
- ^ Toshiba Research Europe: news article about Pepper's knighthood, accessed 6 May 2006
- ^ Cambridge University Corruption, accessed 27 Nov 2007
[edit] External links
- Summary of Prof. Sir Michael Pepper’s Work from Toshiba
- Homepage at the Semiconductor Physics Research group
- Publication list
- Toshiba Research Europe
