Littlewood Peter Brent

Littlewood took a BA in 1976 and a PhD in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1980, with a one-year intermediate sojourn at MIT as a Kennedy Scholar. In 1980 he moved to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and remained as a member of technical staff to become head of the Theoretical Physics Research Department in 1992. He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Physics, and from 2005 to 2010 he was head of the Cavendish Laboratory. In 2011 he became Associate Laboratory Director at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA, and in 2014 Laboratory Director, retiring in 2017. He was a Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of London, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, and Trinity College Cambridge. He had extensive collaborations in India, at Bangalore, TIFR, and Kolkata. He had over 200 publications and six patents.