John Pendry
Sir John Brian Pendry, (born 4 July 1943) is an English
theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indices and creation of the first practical "
Invisibility Cloak". He is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at
Imperial College London where he was head of the department of physics (1998–2001) and principal of the faculty of physical sciences (2001–2002). He is an honorary fellow of
Downing College, Cambridge, (where he was an undergraduate) and an
IEEE fellow. He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience "for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging.", together with
Stefan Hell, and
Thomas Ebbesen, in 2014.
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