Related Research Articles
Margaret Mary Murnane NAS AAA&S is an Irish physicist,who served as a distinguished professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder,having moved there in 1999,with past positions at the University of Michigan and Washington State University. She is currently Director of the STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center and is among the foremost active researchers in laser science and technology. Her interests and research contributions span topics including atomic,molecular,and optical physics,nanoscience,laser technology,materials and chemical dynamics,plasma physics,and imaging science. Her work has earned her multiple awards including the MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000,the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017,the highest award of The Optical Society,and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.
CatherineJ. Murphy is an American chemist and materials scientist,and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC,Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials,specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,National Academy of Sciences,and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Noah David Finkelstein is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a founding co-director of the Colorado Center for STEM Learning,a President’s Teaching Scholar,and the inaugural Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador. His research focuses on physics education and on developing models of context,the scope of which involves students,departments,and institutional scales of transformation. In 2010,Finkelstein testified to the United States House Committee on Science,Space and Technology on how to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate STEM education.
Vassiliki Kalogera is a Greek astrophysicist. She is a professor at Northwestern University and the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). She is a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration that observed gravitational waves in 2015.
Anna Christina Balazs is an American materials scientist and engineer. She currently is Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and holds the John A. Swanson Chair at the Swanson School of Engineering.
Nadya Mason is the dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago,since October 2023. Prior to joining the University of Chicago,she was the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a condensed matter experimentalist,she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems. Mason was the Director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC) and,from September 2022 through September 2023,the Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She was the first woman and woman of color to work as the director at the institute. In 2021,she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Nina Marković is a Croatian-American physicist. Her work focuses on quantum transport in low-dimensional systems,superconductivity,nanostructures,and quantum computing. She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. Markovićworked at Delft University of Technology,Harvard University,and Johns Hopkins University before joining the Goucher College Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2015.
Janet Marie Conrad is an American experimental physicist,researcher,and professor at MIT studying elementary particle physics. Her work focuses on neutrino properties and the techniques for studying them. In recognition of her efforts,Conrad has been the recipient of several highly prestigious awards during her career,including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow,a Guggenheim Fellow,and the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award.
Henriette D. Elvang is a Theoretical Particle Physicist and Professor at the University of Michigan. She works on quantum field theory and scattering processes.
Peggy Cebe is a professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Tufts University.
Kate Scholberg is a Canadian and American neutrino physicist whose research has included experimental studies of neutrino oscillation and the detection of supernovae. She is currently the Arts &Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow at Duke University.
Zuzanna Stefania Siwy is a Polish–American chemist at the University of California,Irvine. Her research considers synthetic nanopores and their application in ionic devices. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,American Association for the Advancement of Science and Foundation for Polish Science.
Elizabeth Urey Baranger was an American physicist and academic administrator at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research concerned shell model calculations in nuclear physics.
Jennifer L. Ross is an American physicist who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Syracuse University. Her research considers active biological condensed matter physics. She was elected fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 and American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.
Reina H. Maruyama is a Japanese–American experimental particle/atomic/nuclear physicist. As a professor at Yale University,Maruyama was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her "innovative and wide-ranging contributions to the experimental study of rare events and fundamental symmetries,especially the search for neutrinoless double beta decay,and for leadership in understanding the signature and nature of dark matter."
Adam Leibovich is an American theoretical physicist. He is a full professor and the Betty J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His research is primarily in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the application of effective field theory to problems of hadronic physics,particularly particles containing one or more heavy quarks. Leibovich also has worked on gravitational wave physics. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017 and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018.
Beth A. Cunningham is an American physicist.
Erica W. Carlson is an American physicist specializing in superconductors,liquid crystals,and strongly correlated materials. She is 150th Anniversary Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. As well as for her research,she is known for her work in physics education for quantum physics,and for her introduction of innovative technologies including podcasts and wikis into her physics teaching.
Senta Victoria (Vicki) Greene is an American experimental high-energy physicist,the Stevenson Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University,where she is also Director of Diversity,Equity,and Engagement for the College of Arts and Science. Her research involves the properties of the quark–gluon plasma,and the shapes of jets in heavy ion collisions.
Amy Lisa Graves is a retired American physicist and physics educator,the Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College. Her publications include works on gender bias in physics,physics education,and computational simulations of phenomena in condensed matter physics,including jamming.
References
- ↑ "Swarthmore". Delaware County Daily Times. March 16, 1977. Retrieved February 22, 2022– via newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Catherine Hirshfeld Crouch PhD, CV" (PDF). Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ "530 earn degrees at Williams". The Berkshire Eagle. June 4, 1990. Retrieved February 22, 2022– via newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Physicist Catherine Crouch Recounts Post-Doc Experiences". Swarthmore College. March 21, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ "Catherine Hirshfeld Crouch". Intervarsity. 15 January 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ "Promotions Recognize Faculty Across Disciplines". Swarthmore College. March 18, 2009. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- 1 2 "Promotions Recognize Faculty Across the Disciplines". Swarthmore College. March 27, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ Dougherty, Ryan (April 11, 2016). "Physicist Catherine Crouch Cited as Outstanding Referee by Scientific Journal". Swarthmore College. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ Campbell, Kate (September 11, 2017). "NSF Grant Will Measure Impact of Physics Course Built for Life Science Majors". Swarthmore College. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ Campbell, Kate (March 25, 2019). "Catherine Crouch Elected to American Physical Society Forum Leadership". Swarthmore College. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ↑ Kelly, Nora (December 2, 2021). "Physicist Catherine Crouch Elected American Physical Society Fellow". Swarthmore College. Retrieved February 22, 2022.