John Pethica

Professor
Sir John Pethica
FRS FREng
Chief Scientific Adviser, National Physical Laboratory
In office
2007–2017
SFI Research Professor and Professor of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin
In office
2001–2018
Professor of Materials Science, University of Oxford
In office
1996–2001
Personal details
Born
John Bernard Pethica

1953 (age 70–71)

Sir John Bernard Pethica (born 1953) is a British chemist and Science Foundation Ireland (S.F.I.) professor of material science at Trinity College, Dublin, Chief Scientific Advisor at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. Pethica is most noted for his work on the development of nanoindentation and atom resolution atomic force microscopy.

Education

John Pethica was a pupil at St Ambrose College, Trafford, Manchester. He received a PhD from IT Sligo in the late 1970s.

Career

In 2001, Pethica was one of the first ten people awarded an S.F.I. principal investigator award. Following the award, he transferred his activities from Oxford to Dublin.

In February 2005, it was announced that Pethica will be the director of the Naughton Institute which will house CRANN, a new purpose built nanotechnology centre in Trinity College Dublin.

In October 2007, Pethica was made the Chief Scientific Advisor at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, the UK’s National Measurement Institute.[citation needed]

Honours and awards

In 1999, Pethica was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He has also served as Vice-President and Physical Secretary of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2013.[1] He was elected an honorary fellow of St Cross College, Oxford in 2014.[2]

Pethica was the 2001 recipient of the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society of London, and the 2002 recipient of the Holweck Prize from the Institute of Physics.[3]

Pethica was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to science.[4][5]

Personal life

Pethica is an accomplished musician - playing violin and other instruments - with a particular interest in Irish and British folk music.[6]

References

  1. ^ "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Sir John Pethica Elected to Honorary Fellowship". News. St Cross College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Professor John Bernard Pethica". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  4. ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b2.
  5. ^ "Oxford food bank founders made MBEs in Queen's Birthday Honours". BBC News. 14 June 2014.
  6. ^ For example, recording with The Cambridge Crofters in the 1970s http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=3116333


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