Peter Drummond (physicist)

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Peter David Drummond FAA is a physicist and distinguished professor in the Centre for Quantum and Optical Science at Swinburne University of Technology.

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Drummond was born in New Zealand in 1950, and was educated at Auckland University, where he graduated a B. Sc. (Hons), at Harvard where he received an A. M. (masters) degree, and at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, where his D.Phil. degree was supervised by Dan Walls and Crispin Gardiner. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Joseph H. Eberly at The University of Rochester, and then as an academic at Auckland University before being appointed to a chair of physics at Queensland University in 1989. He moved to Swinburne University of Technology in 2008.

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References

  1. Drummond, P D; Gardiner, C W (1980). "Generalised P-Representations in Quantum Optics". J Phys A. 13: 2353. Bibcode:1980JPhA...13.2353D. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/13/7/018.
  2. Harrie Massey Medal. Australian Institute of Physics. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  3. "APS Fellows 2000". www.aps.org. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  4. "Peter Drummond". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 21 January 2024.