As of February 2005, it has been announced that Pethica will be the director of 'Naughton Institute' which will house CRANN, a new purpose built nanotechnology centre in Trinity College Dublin.
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The 2001 recipient of the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society of London, Pethica is most noted for his work on the development of atom resolution atomic force microscopy.
Welland moved to Cambridge in 1987 and set up the first tunneling microscopy group in the UK in collaboration with John Pethica.
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