Peter Knight (physicist)
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| Citizenship | British |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Education | Bedford Modern School |
| Alma mater | Sussex University |
| Notable awards | Young Medal and Prize (1999) |
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Sir Peter Knight, FRS is a British physicist, Professor of Quantum Optics and Senior Research Investigator Imperial College London, and Principal of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre.
He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2005. He was president of the Optical Society of America in 2003, the recipient of the Frederic Ives Medal in 2008, and the Royal Medal in 2010. He was president of the Institute of Physics from 2011-13.
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.
He received his first degree and D.Phil. from Sussex University and became Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Rochester and at the Physics Department and SLAC, Stanford University (USA). He was then SRC Research Fellow at Sussex University, and later Visiting Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
In 1976 he became Jubilee Research Fellow from 1976-78 at Royal Holloway, University of London, followed by an SERC Advanced Fellowship from 1978-83, first at RHC from 1978 to 1979, transferring in 1979 to Imperial College. He has remained ever since at Imperial College (apart from very frequent visits to the USA), first as a Lecturer 1983-87, then Reader 1987-88 and Professor since 1988.
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