Sir Michael Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 and is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.
16 Facts About Michael Pepper
1.
2.
Michael Pepper then went on to study physics at the University of Reading and graduated Bachelor of Science in 1963.
3.
Michael Pepper remained at Reading to undertake postgraduate studies and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1967.
4.
Michael Pepper was awarded a higher doctorate, Doctor of Science, by Cambridge.
5.
Sir Michael Pepper was a physicist at the Plessey Research Laboratories when he formed a collaboration with Sir Nevill Mott, which resulted in his commencing research in the Cavendish Laboratory in 1973 on localisation in semiconductor structures.
6.
Michael Pepper subsequently joined the GEC Hirst Research Centre where he set up joint Cambridge-GEC projects.
7.
Michael Pepper was one of three authors on the paper that eventually brought a Nobel prize for the quantum Hall effect to Klaus von Klitzing.
8.
Sir Michael Pepper formed the Semiconductor Physics research group 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.
9.
Michael Pepper became an honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Science in the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2003.
10.
Michael Pepper left his Cambridge Chair to take up the Pender Chair of Nanoelectronics at University College London in 2009 and has been associated with many developments in Semiconductor Physics and applications of terahertz radiation.
11.
Michael Pepper sits on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies.
12.
Michael Pepper was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983 and was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1982.
13.
Michael Pepper had previously given the first Mott Lecture in 1985.
14.
Michael Pepper 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," gave the Royal Society's Bakerian Prize Lecture in 2004 and received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's Honours list for services to physics.
15.
Michael Pepper was appointed a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
16.
Michael Pepper has been awarded the 2013 Faraday Medal of the IET.