John Pethica
John Pethica | |
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| Chief Scientific Adviser, National Physical Laboratory | |
| In office 2007–2017 | |
| SFI Research Professor and Professor of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin | |
| In office 2001–2018 | |
| Professor of Materials Science, University of Oxford | |
| In office 1996–2001 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Bernard Pethica 1953 (age 71–72) |
Sir John Bernard Pethica (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.