Peter Demos

{{short description|American physicist}}

{{for|the Australian Olympic basketball player|Peter Demos (basketball)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| honorific_prefix =

| birth_date = {{birth_date|1918|07|18}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age |2012|09|18 |1918|07|18}}

| death_place = Belmont, Massachusetts

| name = Peter T. Demos

| education = Queen's University
MIT

| doctoral_advisor = Arthur F. Kip
John C. Slater

| workplaces = MIT

| thesis_title = Design and Properties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linear Electron Accelerator

| spouse = Elizabeth Demos

}}

Peter T. Demos (July 18, 1918 – September 18, 2012) was a professor in the Department of Physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT.{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/catalog/degre.scien.physi.html|title=Department of Physics|publisher=MIT|accessdate=26 January 2011}} A native of Peterborough, Ontario, Demos attended Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School and Queen's University, and received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1951.{{cite web

| title = Olympic Torch Relay Community Success Stories: Peterborough, Ontario

| url = http://www.peterborough.ca/Assets/City+Assets/Recreation/2010+Olympics/Documents/Community+Success+Story+-+Peterborough.pdf

| accessdate = 26 January 2011

}} He was a founder and former director of the Bates Linear Accelerator at MIT{{cite web

|title = Interview with Robert Redwine : Massachusetts Institute of Technology 150th Anniversary

|url = http://mit150.mit.edu/infinite-history/robert-redwine

|publisher = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

|accessdate = 26 January 2011

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110113085407/http://mit150.mit.edu/infinite-history/robert-redwine

|archivedate = 13 January 2011

}}{{cite web

|title = 1999 Bates Report

|publisher = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

|url = http://mitbates.lns.mit.edu/bates/control/reports

|accessdate = 26 January 2011

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110716075617/http://mitbates.lns.mit.edu/bates/control/reports

|archivedate = 16 July 2011

}} and served as advisor on nuclear science to John F. Kennedy.{{cite web

|title = Peterborough's History and Culture

|url = http://www.bedandbreakfastpeterborough.ca/Tourism/Tourism2/index.html

|accessdate = 26 January 2011

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706165659/http://www.bedandbreakfastpeterborough.ca/Tourism/Tourism2/index.html

|archivedate = 6 July 2011

}}