Peter Littlewood
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| Born | May 18, 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics |
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Argonne National Laboratory University of Chicago |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Volker Heine |
| Notable students | Jonathan Keeling |
| Known for | polariton condensation, correlated oxides |
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Peter Littlewood (born 18 May 1955) is a British physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. As of April 1, 2014, he is 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.
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 the Director of Argonne National Laboratory.
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