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.