Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Cornell University
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH
February 24, 1929, Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION
B.A., Harvard 1950
M.A., Harvard 1951
Coffin Fellow 1953-54
General Electric Fellow 1954-55
Ph.D. (Physics) Harvard 1956
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Member Staff, Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
1956-57
Instructor Physics, Cornell, 1957-59
Assistant Professor, 1959-61
Associate Professor, 1961-65
Professor, 1965-1997
Emeritus Professor, 1997-present
Director, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, 1974-79
Director, Materials Science Center, 1984 - 1989
OTHER AFFILIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Society of Sigma Xi, 1953-1996
American Physical Society, 1955-present (fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1974-present (fellow)
Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1957-62
Consultant, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1966-70
Visiting Committee, Battelle Research Institute, 1969-73
Solid State Physics Delegation to visit China, National Academy of Sciences, 1975
American Physical Society Study Group on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, 1976-78
Board on Radioactive Waste Management, National Academy of Sciences, 1982-84
Board of Editors, Solid State Communications, 1970 - 1993
Associate Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics, 1979-84
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Solid state physics; magnetic resonance; radiation damage; optical
properties; electron charge and spin transport in metals and
semiconductors; physics of very small conducting systems;
Musical acoustics
Computer simulations for teaching in solid state physics
Design and construction of exhibits for the Ithaca Sciencenter
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1965-66, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
1973-74, University of Paris, South, Orsay, France
Fall 1980, The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, England
Spring 1981, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey