Born June 26, 1937 in Washington, DC; citizenship: USA
Family: Married on September 29, 1962, to Betty M. McCarthy
Two daughters, Jennifer (born January 4, 1965) and Pamela (born May 12, 1966)
Education:
1958 BS degree in Physics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1960 MS degree in Physics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1966 PhD degree in Physics from Duke University
Employment History:
1966-67 Research Associate, Cornell University
1968-71 Assistant Professor, Cornell University
1972-74 Associate Professor, Cornell University
1975-86 Professor, Cornell University
1984 Visiting Scientist, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
1987-present F. R. Newman Professor of Physics, Cornell University
1990-97 Director of
Laboratory
of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell
University
Principal Research Interests:
Experimental low temperature physics, especially the properties of liquids and solids at sub-millikelvin temperatures.
Professional Activities:
National Academy of Sciences (elected 1986), Chair of Physics Section 1989-1992
NAS Committee on Human Rights 1987-1989
IUPAP Commission C-5 (Very Low Temperatures) 1979-1984 (Chairman 1981-1984)
NRC Panel on Condensed-Matter Physics 1983-1985
NRC Board of Assessment for National Bureau of Standards 1983-1989
Board of Editors, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 1984-present
Board of Editors, Institute of Physics (United Kingdom) 1989-1992
Visiting Committee, Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, Cal Tech 1986
NSF Materials Division Panel on Large Magnetic Fields (Co-Chairman) 1986-1988
NRC Panel, CODATA 1987-1989
NRC Fellowship Panel 1989-present (Chair of Physics selection Committee)
NRC Associateship Programs Advisory Committee 1992-present
American Physical Society Panel, POPA (Panel on Public Affairs) 1989-1991
American Physical Society panel, CISA (Committee on International Scientific Affairs) 1990-1992
American Physical Society, Vice Chair Division of Condensed Matter Physics 1993
Review Committee, Department of Physics, Penn State University, 1990
Advisory Committee, Department of Physics VPI&SU, 1989-present
Steering Committee, Federal Demonstration Project 1990-present
Member of International Advisory Panel for Low Temperature Conferences in 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990 and 1993
Honors:
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975-76
Eighth Simon Memorial Prize [British Physical Society], 1976 (with D. D. Osheroff and D. M.
Lee)
Buckley Prize [American Physical Society], 1981 (with D. D. Osheroff and D. M. Lee)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1982-83
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1983
Member, National Academy of Sciences (1986)
Foreign Member Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (1993) Nobel
Prize in Physics (1996)
Books Written:
Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics at LowTemperatures (with Eric N. Smith and 21 Cornell graduate students) Addison-Wesley (1988).
Instructional Videos Produced:
The World at Absolute Zero, a video tape of a public lecture at Cornell University. Introductory Physics, a series of 20 video-taped lectures to accompany the introductory physics course taught at Cornell for students without a back-ground in calculus.