Nationality British | Name Peter Littlewood Doctoral advisor Volker Heine Role Physicist | |
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Born May 18, 1955 (age 69) ( 1955-05-18 ) Institutions Argonne National LaboratoryUniversity of Chicago Known for polariton condensation, correlated oxides | ||
Notable students Jonathan Keeling | ||
Peter littlewood polariton condensation and collective dynamics
Peter Littlewood (born 18 May 1955) is a British physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He was the 13th Director of Argonne National Laboratory. He 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 polariton condensation and collective dynamics
- Physics fom veldhoven 2016 peter littlewood polariton condensation
- Career
- Honours and positions
- Work
- References
Physics fom veldhoven 2016 peter littlewood polariton condensation
Career
He 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. He returned to Cambridge in 1977 to complete his PhD.
Beginning in 1980, he worked at Bell Labs, finishing his time there as head of the theoretical physics research after assuming the position in 1992. He continued to be a member of technical staff until 2001.
In 1997, he became a professor at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and was head of the Theory of Condensed Matter group, and served as Matthias Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory during a 2003-04 sabbatical. In 2005, he returned to Cambridge to become head of the Cavendish Laboratory, before being named in 2011 the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Argonne National Laboratory. On March 25, 2014, Littlewood was named to the director's post. In January 2017, he retired as director to resume his research at the University of Chicago.
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.
Honours and positions
From his curriculum vitae, 2010.
Work
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. He has applied his methods to engineering, including holographic storage, optical fibers and devices, and new materials for particle detectors.