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]