Sir Peter Knight

GPTKB entity

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gptkb:Faraday_Medal
gptkb:Max_Born_Award
gptkb:Order_of_the_British_Empire
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gptkbp:birthDate 1947-08-12
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Peter_Leonard_Knight
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Leicester,_England
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Les_Allen
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Almut_Beige
gptkb:Jonathan_P._Dowling
gptkb:Simon_Benjamin
gptkb:Tim_Spiller
gptkb:Ian_Walmsley
gptkb:Gerard_Milburn
gptkb:Stephen_Barnett
gptkb:Vlatko_Vedral
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Contemporary_Physics
gptkb:Journal_of_Modern_Optics
gptkbp:field physics
quantum optics
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gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Institute_of_Physics
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Optical_Society_of_America
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Peter Knight
gptkbp:knighted 2005
gptkbp:knownFor quantum information science
quantum optics
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gptkbp:position Emeritus Professor
Senior Research Investigator
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gptkb:Optical_Society_of_America
gptkbp:residence gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Carole_Knight
gptkbp:title Sir
gptkbp:website https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.knight
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