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Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale Appendix 2 – page 1 1. NAME OF CANDIDATE: Pendry, John, Brian Last, First, Middle PRESENT OCCUPATION: Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London Position, Organization BUSINESS ADDRESS: Room 808, Blackett, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom HOME ADDRESS: Metchley, Knipp Hill, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 2PE, United Kingdom BIRTHDATE: 4th July, 1943 NATIONALITY: UK SEX: male - female (Underline the appropriate) 2. EDUCATION (Honorary degrees denoted by H) Educational Institution Location Degrees Year University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK BA Physics 1965 University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK MA Physics 1969 University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK PhD Physics 1969 Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany Doctorate H 2009 Duke University USA Doctor of Science H 2010 Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Doctor of Science H 2010 3. PROPOSED CITATION (not more than thirty words) For work on electromagnetic and optical metamaterials, the perfect lens and transformation optics 4. NOMINATOR: Dr Constantinos Constantinou, Chair, UK URSI Panel ADDRESS: School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom PHONE: +44-121-414-4303 FAX: +44-121-414-4291 E-MAIL : [email protected] Appendix 2 – page 2 5. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY - Present position first. Limit copy to this page. From (year) to (year) Name of Company/Institution Position and Responsibilities 1981 present Imperial College London, UK Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics and Head of Condensed Matter Group 1975 1981 SERC Daresbury Laboratory, UK Senior Principal Scientific Officer; Head of Theory Group 1973 1975 University of Cambridge, UK Senior Assistant in Research, Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow in Physics and Praelector, Downing College 1972 1973 Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, Member of Technical Staff in USA Theoretical Physics Department 1969 1973 University of Cambridge, UK Research Fellow in Physics, Downing College, Cambridge ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... Appendix 2 – page 3 6. HONOURS, AWARDS, PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS, MAJOR PROFESSIONAL GOVERNMENT OR INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 1984 Fellow of the Institute of Physics (F.Inst.P.) 1992-93 Member, SERC Science Board, SERC Nuclear Physics Board 1992-94 Member of Council, Royal Society. 1993-96 Dean, Royal College of Science 1994 British Vacuum Council Prize and Medal 1996-2002 Editor, Proceedings A of the Royal Society 1996 Institute of Physics Dirac Medal and Prize 1996 International Surface Structure Prize 1998-2002 Member of Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council 1998-2000 Commonwealth Scholarships Commissioner 2003 Appleton Lecture 2004 Knight Bachelor (for services to science) 2004 Celsius Lecture, University of Uppsala, Sweden 2005 Honorary Fellow, Downing College Cambridge 2005-2008 Chairman Physics sub panel of UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 2005 Fellow Optical Society of America 2005 Decartes prize for “Extending Electromagnetism through Novel Artificial Materials” 2005 Royal Society Bakerian Lecture 2005 Larmor Lecture (Belfast) 2005 Fröhlich Lecture (Liverpool) 2005 EU Descartes prize for “Extending Electromagnetism through Novel Artificial Materials” 2006 Royal Medal 2006-present Chairman, Advisory Committee of nanoGUNE, San Sebastian 2007-2011 Member of Council, Institute of Physics 2007-2011 Chairman, Institute of Physics Publishing 2008-2011 Member, External Advisory board, Metamaterial Grand Challenge, Sandia National Laboratory 2009-2012 Chairman, Cockcroft Institute Board 2009-2012 Member, Core Committee of the MPI for the Science of Light, Erlangen 2009 Centenary Kelvin lecture – Institute of Engineering and Technology 2009 Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science 2009 UNESCO-Niels Bohr gold medal 2010 W.E Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics 2011-present Visiting Member, Institute of Advanced Studies, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 2012-present Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2012 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2012 Honorary Professor Nanjing South Eastern University 2012 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting 2013-present Foreign Associate US National Academy of Sciences 2013 APS McGroddy Prize – joint with David Smith and Costas Soukoulis 2013 European Materials Research Society 30th Anniversary Prize 2013 Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics 7. PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS, PATENTS (Give list in annex – maximum 5 pages) - Prefer items of sole responsibility, otherwise give joint names. - Mention only books and articles in refereed international journals. - Identify the ten most significant contributions. 8. PRIZE OR MEDAL FOR WHICH THE NOMINEE'S WORK IS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal Appleton Prize Booker Gold Medal Issac Koga Gold Medal Appendix 2 – page 4 9. ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE NOMINATION (Limit to this page) The contributions Sir John Pendry has made to electromagnetism, optics, electron diffraction, and photonics have all been transformative. His work on metamaterials, the perfect lens and transformation optics is the most significant advance in electromagnetism and optics for almost 150 years. He is undoubtedly one of the most creative and influential theoretical physicists of the last 40 years. Nature presents materials with a limited palette of electromagnetic properties. But Pendry’s metamaterials extend the range of these properties enormously. Ordinary materials derive their electromagnetic properties from the chemical nature of the constituent atoms and molecules. The electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial derive from the carefully designed shapes, sizes and spatial arrangements of embedded electromagnetically active objects within an inactive medium at length scales much larger than atomic but smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. This principle of function through structure rather than chemistry is the defining feature of a metamaterial. Because the number of structures is almost infinite the design possibilities are virtually unlimited. One of the earliest and most arresting applications of metamaterials was the first realization of the phenomenon of negative refraction. Negative refraction had been postulated theoretically in 1968 by the Russian physicist Victor Veselago, but no examples were ever found in nature. Pendry showed how a metamaterial could be constructed that would display negative refraction. Moreover, he discovered that a lens manufactured from negatively refracting material would circumvent Abbé’s diffraction limit to its spatial resolution, which has stood since 1873. In this way he gave the first prescription for a ‘perfect lens’, which has since been realized experimentally (e.g. Taubner et al, Science, 313 1595 (2006)). His ‘perfect lens’ is a remarkable example of the revolutionary nature of metamaterials, with its resolution limited only by the perfection of manufacture and not by the wavelength of light. His most recent discovery of ‘transformation optics’ has been extensively deployed to design metamaterial devices, most famously the invention of a ‘cloak of invisibility’ that has captured the interest and imagination of scientists and non-scientists around the World. Transformation optics has similarities to the general theory of relativity and gives the metamaterial specifications required to rearrange electromagnetic field
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