Michael Pepper

Sir Michael Pepper ( born August 10, 1942) is a British solid-state physicist, known for work on nanostructures in semiconductors and as a pioneer in the study of solid-state electron systems in low ( two or fewer ) dimensions and their quantum phenomena.

Pepper studied physics at the University of Reading with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in 1967. Afterwards he went into industry research on semiconductors at the Caswell Research Laboratory of the electronics group Plessey. From 1973 his research began at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he remained until 2008. There he worked long with the theorist and Nobel Prize winner Nevill Mott on localization phenomena together in semiconductors. In 1985, he became head of semiconductor research group and in 1987 he became a professor. At the same time he worked for the industry, to 1982 for Plessey and then for General Electric Company ( GEC ) at GEC Hirst Research Centre and in joint projects between GEC and the University of Cambridge. In 1991 he became managing director of the newly founded Toshiba Cambridge Research Center (now Cambridge Research Laboratories of Toshiba Europe, CRL) and in 2007 Senior Adviser from Toshiba. In 2009 he was Pender Professor of Nanoelectronics at London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

It deals with nanostructures in semiconductors, quantum transport, localization and metal -insulator transitions, properties of strongly interacting electron gases in solids, Bose -Einstein condensation in the solid phase, hybrid magnetic semiconductor structures and physical applications in medicine and biology.

Pepper in 1980 was one of the co - authors of Klaus von Klitzing in the original article to the quantum Hall effect.

Pepper developed an electrostatic method to limit two-dimensional electron gas systems to zero or one dimension, and thus has studied different quantum phenomena such as the quantization of the conductance of ballistic electrons in one dimension.

In 2001 he was co-founder of TeraView and its scientific director. The company serves the commercial application of terahertz research at CRL.

In 1985 he received the Faraday Medal of the Institute of Physics (then Guthrie Medal ) and the European Physics Prize ( European Physical Society). In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Hughes Medal in 1987 he and the Royal Medal he received in 2005. In 2004 he held the Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society. In 2000 he received the first Mott Prize of the Institute of Physics, whose fellow he is. In 1982 he became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and he was at the University of Cambridge in 1987 a Master of Arts in 1989 and an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.). Pepper was knighted in 2006. In 2009 he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 2013 Pepper was again awarded with a Faraday Medal; this time the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET ). Also in 2013 he was awarded the Dirac Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of New South Wales.