1. John Pendry is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College London where he was head of the department of physics and principal of the faculty of physical sciences.
11 Facts About John Pendry
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John Pendry was born in Manchester, where his father was an oil representative, and took a degree in Natural Sciences at the Downing College, Cambridge after which he was appointed as a research fellow, between 1969 and 1975.
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John Pendry has authored over 300 research papers and encouraged many experimental initiatives.
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John Pendry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984 and in 2004 he was knighted in the Birthday Honours.
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John Pendry is married to Pat, a mathematician he met at Cambridge who became a tax inspector.
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John Pendry has authored or co-authored a wide range of articles and several books.
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At Bell Labs, John Pendry worked with Patrick Lee in photoelectron spectroscopy to develop the first quantitative theory of EXAFS, for which he was awarded the Dirac Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1996.
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John Pendry noticed that the problem of photoemission was similar to his work on LEED and this was important as the synchrotron at Daresbury was just coming online.
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In 2024, John Pendry was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in the category of "Material Sciences and engineering".
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In 2019, John Pendry won the SPIE Mozi Award "in recognition of his eminent contributions to the development of perfect lens".
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In 2016, Sir John Pendry was awarded the Dan David Prize.