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.

• 1. Charged particles in electromagnetic fields2. Language of aberration expansions in charged particle optics3. Transporting charged particle beams in static fields4. Transporting charged particles in radiofrequency fields5. Static magnetic charged particle analyzers6. Electrostatic energy analyzers7. Mass analyzers with combined electrostatic and magnetic fields8. Time-of-flight mass analyzers9. Radiofrequency mass analyzers