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Sir John Bernard Pethica , FRS , FREng (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 [ edit ]

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

Career [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Homepage of John Pethica at Oxford
• Homepage of John Pethica at CRANN
• Chief Scientific Advisor : National Physical Laboratory

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