John Pethica

Bernard John Pethica FRS ( born 1953 in Birmingham, England ) is a British physicist who was especially known for the invention of the nanoindentation and the development of atomic force microscopes.

Life

After visiting the St. Ambrose College in Traffold he studied from 1970 to 1971 medicine at the University of Paris, before he studied natural science at the University of Cambridge, and this study in 1975 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BS Natural Science). After acquiring a Philosophiae Doctor in the tray surface engineering at the University of Cambridge, he was initially 1980 to 1982 Research scientist at the electrical engineering company Asea Brown Boveri (ABB).

Subsequently, he was 1982-1987 Lecturer of Physics at the University of Cambridge and at the same time from 1984 to 1998 Founder and President of the company Nano Instruments Inc. in the United States. After he was professor of physics at the University of Oxford from 1987 to 1996, he took there between 1996 and 2001 a professor of materials science is true and in 1999 a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Subsequently, he was from 2001 to 2005 Professor of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and was at the same time the founder and director of the Research Center for Adaptive Nanostructure Science and Nanotechnology ( Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices ). Pethica, who was awarded the Hughes Medal in 2001, is also a member of the 2003 founded Science Foundation Ireland (SFI ).

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he dealt with the invention of the nanoindentation, a method of material testing to determine the hardness of materials at small length scales (nanometers (nm ) ). He also dealt with the development of atomic force microscopes.

Since 2007, John Pethica chief scientist of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. In 2009 he was not only vice-president, but at the same time also secretary of Physics of the Royal Society.

Pethica was chairman of the working group of the Royal Society, which created a summary of current research on climate change in 2010.

External links and sources

  • John Pethica in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Entry ( University of Oxford)
  • Entry ( CRANN, Trinity College Dublin)
  • Entry ( National Physical Laboratory)
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