Peter George LeComber (or Le Comber) FRS FRSE (19 February 1941 – 9 September 1992) was a British solid-state physicist and academic.
With ten patents to his name, he is in part responsible for the development of items such as flat-screen televisions and solar power cells.
[1] He worked closely with Walter Eric Spear FRS in the development of Amorphous silicon and the creation of solar panels.
[1] He met Walter Eric Spear whilst working in Leicester and together they went to the Carnegie Laboratory of Physics, Dundee University in 1969 to establish the study of non-crystalline solids.
[6] He died of a heart attack on 9 September 1992, aged 51, whilst on a trip to Switzerland to celebrate his thirtieth wedding anniversary.