Peter Brent Littlewood was born on 18 May 1955 and is a British physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.
10 Facts About Peter Littlewood
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Peter Littlewood was the 12th Director of Argonne National Laboratory.
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Peter Littlewood previously headed the Cavendish Laboratory as well as the Theory of Condensed Matter group and the Theoretical Physics Research department at Bell Laboratories.
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Peter Littlewood gained a first-class degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge in 1976, and was then awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years.
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Peter Littlewood returned to Cambridge in 1977 to complete his PhD.
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Peter Littlewood continued to be a member of technical staff until 2001.
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On March 25,2014, Peter Littlewood was named to the director's post.
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Peter Littlewood holds six patents, has published more than 200 articles in scientific journals and has given more than 200 invited talks at international conferences, universities and laboratories.
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Peter Littlewood's research has variously included studying the phenomenology and microscopic theory of high-temperature superconductors, transition metal oxides and other correlated electronic systems, and the optical properties of highly excited semiconductors.
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Peter Littlewood has applied his methods to engineering, including holographic storage, optical fibers and devices, and new materials for particle detectors.