Peter Hawkes obtained his M.A. and Ph.D (and later, Sc.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently held Fellowships of Peterhouse and of Churchill College. From 1959 – 1975, he worked in the electron microscope section of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after which he joined the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. He was Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and is a Fellow of the Microscopy and Optical Societies of America. He is a member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and serial editor of Advances in Electron Optics.

• I. FIELD AND THERMIONIC EMISSION FUNDAMENTALSA. A Note On UnitsB. Free Electron GasC. Nearly Free Electron GasD. The Surface Barrier to Electron EmissionE. The Image Charge ApproximationII. THERMAL AND FIELD EMISSIONA. Current DensityB. Exactly Solvable ModelsC. WKB “Area Under the Curve” ModelsD. Numerical MethodsE. The Thermal and Field Emission EquationF. The Revised FN-RLD Equation and the inference of Work Functionfrom experimental dataG. Recent Revisions of the Standard Thermal an Field ModelsH. The General Thermal-Field EquationI. Thermal EmittanceIII. PHOTOEMISSIONA. BackgroundB. Quantum EfficiencyC. The Probability of emissionD. Reflection and Penetration DepthE. ConductivityF. Scattering RatesG. Scattering factorH. Temperature of a Laser-illuminated SurfaceI. Numerical Solution of the Coupled Thermal EquationsJ. Revisions to the Modified Fowler Dubridge Model: Quantum EffectsK. Quantum Efficiency Revisited: A Moments-based ApproachL. The Quantum Efficiency of Bare MetalsM. The Emittance and Brightness of PhotocathodesIV. LOW WORK FUNCTION COATINGS AND ENHANCED EMISSIONA. Some HistoryB. A Simple Model of a Low Work Function CoatingC. A Less Simple Model of the Low Work Function CoatingD. The (Modified) Gyftopoulos-Levine Model of Work FunctionReductionE. Comparison of the Modified Gyftopoulos-Levine Model toThermionic DataF. Comparison of the Modified Gyftopoulos-Levine Model toPhotoemission DataV. APPENDICESA. Integrals related to Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein StatisticsB. The Riemann Zeta function