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Full name | Peter Albert Iles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1926-12-23)23 December 1926 Palmerston North, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Legbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1946/47–1951/52 | Auckland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 11 February 2021 |
Peter Albert Iles (born 23 December 1926) is an American engineer and a former New Zealand cricketer and association football player.
Iles began his cricket career as a leg-spin bowler, but later concentrated on his batting. He played two first-class matches for Auckland, in 1946 and 1952. In 1948 he represented New Zealand Universities at association football as a goalkeeper, and in 1950 he played for the North Island team against the South Island team.
Iles studied at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1948, and Master of Science with second-class honours in 1952. In the mid-1950s he spent some time in England before moving to Canada.
Iles later moved to the United States, settling in California and becoming an American citizen, where he worked as an engineer developing solar cells, including those used on early American satellites. In 1991, Iles received the William R. Cherry Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society for his prolonged and sustained contribution to the field of photovoltaic conversion. He continued to publish on the subject until at least 2004, contributing a chapter, "Photovoltaic conversion: space applications", to the Encyclopedia of Energy published by Elsevier that year.
References
- "Plunket Shield fixtures". Press: 6. 28 December 1951.
- "Peter Iles". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- "Canterbury's narrow win". Press: 3. 30 August 1948.
- "Teams Announced For North-South Match". Greymouth Evening Star: 7. 15 June 1950.
- "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: I–K". Shadows of Time. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- "Cricket: London N.Z. Club". Press: 5. 24 November 1955.
- "California, U.S., federal naturalization records, 1843–1999". Ancestry.com Operations. 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- "Solar cell history". Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- "William R. Cherry Award". IEEE. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- Iles, Peter A. (2004). "Photovoltaic Conversion: Space Applications". In Cleveland, Cutler J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Energy. Elsevier Science. ISBN 978-0-12-176480-7. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
External links
Categories:- 1926 births
- New Zealand cricketers
- New Zealand men's association footballers
- Auckland cricketers
- Cricketers from Palmerston North
- University of Auckland alumni
- New Zealand emigrants to the United States
- American electrical engineers
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen