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Born on July 4, 1943 in Manchester, United Kingdom, John Pendry is a physicist, engineer and university teacher. John Pendry is 83 years old as of 2026. Education on record includes Downing College. Recorded honors include IOP Dirac Medal (1996), Royal Society Bakerian Medal (2005), Descartes Prize (2005) and 5 more.
My Take
John Pendry is exactly the kind of figure I love to champion. The man behind the theory of the first practical invisibility cloak turned science fiction into solvable physics, pioneering metamaterials with properties nature never made. His shelf of honors, from the Dirac Medal to the Royal Medal, only confirms what the ideas already prove. I admire scientists who quietly rewrite how we see the world rather than chase the spotlight, and Pendry did precisely that. There is a childlike wonder in the phrase invisibility cloak, and the fact that a Cambridge-trained theorist made it real is, to me, the purest kind of romance in research.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- John Pendry
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョン・ペンドリー
- Reading
- じょん・ぺんどりー
- Born
- July 4, 1943 (age 83)
- Origin
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Occupation
- physicist / engineer / university teacher
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Goat
2. Background
- University
- Downing College
Awards & achievements
- 1996 IOP Dirac Medal
- 2005 Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- 2005 Descartes Prize
- 2006 Royal Medal
- 2009 Clarivate Citation Laureates
- 2009 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2009 IET Kelvin Lecture
- 2010 UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
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4. About this entry
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Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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Born July 4, 1943 (age 83).
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