{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Peter Iles | image = | country = | fullname = Peter Albert Iles | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|12|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Palmerston North, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Legbreak | role = | club1 = Auckland | year1 = {{nowrap|1946/47–1951/52}} | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 58 | bat avg1 = 19.33 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 20 | deliveries1 = 360 | wickets1 = 3 | bowl avg1 = 40.66 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 3/46 | catches/stumpings1= 3/– | date = 11 February | year = 2021 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22191/22191.html CricketArchive }}
'''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.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Plunket Shield fixtures |journal=Press |date=28 December 1951 |page=6 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19511228.2.83}}</ref> He played two first-class matches for Auckland, in 1946 and 1952.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38946.html |title=Peter Iles |access-date=12 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> In 1948 he represented New Zealand Universities at association football as a goalkeeper,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Canterbury's narrow win |journal=Press |date=30 August 1948 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19480830.2.129}}</ref> and in 1950 he played for the North Island team against the South Island team.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Teams Announced For North-South Match |journal=Greymouth Evening Star|date=15 June 1950 |page=7 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19500615.2.79}}</ref>
Iles studied at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1948, and Master of Science with second-class honours in 1952.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university13.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: I–K |website=Shadows of Time |access-date=11 February 2021}}</ref> In the mid-1950s he spent some time in England before moving to Canada.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Cricket: London N.Z. Club|journal=Press |date=24 November 1955 |page=5 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19551124.2.34}}</ref>
Iles later moved to the United States, settling in California and becoming an American citizen,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=LosAngelsCANaturalization&h=383165 |title=California, U.S., federal naturalization records, 1843–1999 |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |year=2014 |access-date=11 February 2021 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> where he worked as an engineer developing solar cells, including those used on early American satellites.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://an-surzglobal.com/html/solar_cell_history.html |title=Solar cell history |access-date=11 February 2021 |archive-date=21 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250521214948/http://an-surzglobal.com/html/solar_cell_history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC35/cherry-award.html |title=William R. Cherry Award |publisher=IEEE |access-date=11 February 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B012176480X003326 |chapter=Photovoltaic Conversion: Space Applications |title=Encyclopedia of Energy |first=Peter A. |last=Iles |editor-first=Cutler J. |editor-last=Cleveland |publisher=Elsevier Science |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-12-176480-7 |access-date=11 February 2021}}</ref>
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