Peter Littlewood optical fibers and devices, and new materials for particle detectors. Peter Littlewood Peter Littlewood (born 18 May 1955) is a British physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He was 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
University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy Notable physicists associated with the University have included Joseph Black, Max Born, Peter Higgs, James Clerk Maxwell and Peter Guthrie Tait. Five winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are associated with the University (Edward Victor Appleton, Charles Glover Barkla, Max Born, Igor Tamm and Peter Higgs). University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The school was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics - called the Department of Natural Philosophy until the late 1960s - and