John Pendry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Pendry

British physicist

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1943

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Profession: engineer, physicist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS FInstP (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