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Peter Knight (physicist)
British physicist
For other people with this name, see Peter Knight (disambiguation).
Sir Peter Leonard KnightFRS HonFInstP (born 12 August 1947) is a British physicist, professor of quantum optics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, and principal of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre.[2][3] He is a leading academic in the field of quantum optics and is the recipient of several major awards including the Royal Medal from the Royal Society and the Thomas Young Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. He is a former president of the Institute of Physics and Optica, the first non North American-based person to take the position.
He is described as "one of the UK’s most influential scientists and leaders of scientific policy" by his peers.[4]
Academic career
[edit]Knight's work is concerned principally with theoretical quantum optics, strong field physics and especially quantum information science. He was educated at Bedford Modern School.[5]
When Knight began his University education he attended Sussex University to read chemistry, but soon realised physics interested him more.[6] He received his first degree and D.Phil. from Sussex University and
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Hamburg Prize demand Theoretical Physics
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PRIZE WINNERS
- 2010 Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO Barcelona
- 2011 Shaft Zoller, Universität Innsbruck
- 2012 Shaul Mukamel, Univers
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Bertrand Halperin
PHYSICIST
1941 - Today
Bertrand Halperin
Bertrand I. Halperin (born December 6, 1941) is an American physicist, former holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at the physics department of Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bertrand Halperin has received more than 77,626 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bertrand Halperin is the 782nd most popular physicist (down from 741st in 2019), the 10,894th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,074th in 2019) and the 174th most popular American Physicist.
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