Laura M. Roth

Laura M. Roth
Awards	Emerita Professor
Scientific career
Institutions	University at Albany Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Laura M. Roth is an American solid state physicist, and an American Physical Society Fellow.

Career

Around 1960, Roth was working at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Along with Mildred Dresselhaus, she was one of only two women among approximately 1000 men. ^[1] Around this time she was being mentored by Benjamin Lax. ^[2] She also has co-authored papers with Kenneth Button. ^[3]

Roth became an American Physical Society Fellow in 1967, while at Tufts University. ^[4]

She is currently Emerita Professor at Department of Physics, University at Albany. ^[5]

Selected publications

• Roth, Laura M.; Lax, Benjamin; Zwerdling, Solomon (1959). "Theory of Optical Magneto-Absorption Effects in Semiconductors". Physical Review. 114 (1). American Physical Society: 90–104. Bibcode:1959PhRv..114...90R. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.114.90.
• Roth, Laura (1964). "Theory of the Faraday Effect in Solids". Physical Review. 133 (2A): A542 –A553. Bibcode:1964PhRv..133..542R. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.133.A542.

Books

• Roth, Laura; Inomata, Akira, eds. (1986). Fundamental Questions in Quantum Mechanics: Proceedings of the Conference on Fundamental Questions in Quantum Mechanics held at the State University of New York at Albany, April 12–14, 1984. Routledge. ISBN   978-2881240584.

References

1. Dresselhaus, Mildred S. (2011). "Reflections on My Career inCondensed Matter Physics". Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2: 1–9. Bibcode:2011ARCMP...2....1D. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-062910-140530. S2CID   123803736.
2. "Benjamin Lax Memoir" (PDF). www.nasonline.org. 2016. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
3. Lax, Benjamin; Button, Kenneth J.; Roth, Laura M. (1954). "Ferrite Phase Shifters in Rectangular Wave Guide". Journal of Applied Physics. 25 (11): 1413–1421. Bibcode:1954JAP....25.1413L. doi:10.1063/1.1721578.
4. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
5. "Department of Physics - University at Albany-SUNY". www.albany.edu.

External links

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