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Christopher Pope (physicist)

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Christopher Neville Pope is the Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Stephen Hawking Chair of Fundamental Physics at Texas A&M University.[1]

In 1976, Pope graduated with B.S. from Clare College, Cambridge[1] and was awarded the Tyson Medal.[2] From St John's College, Cambridge he received in 1979 his M.A. and in 1980 his Ph.D.[1] His doctoral thesis Instantons in quantum gravity was written under the supervision of Stephen Hawking.[3]

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  1. ^ a b c "Chairs". tamu.edu. Archived from the original on July 21, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  2. ^ "Mayhew Prize winners list". UK: University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.
  3. ^ Christopher N. Pope at the Mathematics Genealogy Project