Arthur Hebard
Arthur Foster Hebard (born March 2, 1940 in New York City ) is an American physicist and professor at the University of Florida .
Hebard graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1962 and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1971 . His dissertation was on the search for free quarks with superconducting, magnetically suspended spheres. From 1972 he was at Bell Laboratories , where he did research on superconducting thin films. From 1996 he was a professor at the University of Florida, since 2007 as a Distinguished Professor.
Among other things, he investigated Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in superconducting films, the development of techniques for measuring the penetration depth of magnetic fields in superconductors and transitions from superconductor to insulator (driven by changes in the magnetic field). In 1991 he and his colleagues demonstrated superconductivity in fullerene doped with potassium . He also explores magnetism in thin films and thin film interfaces and the use of graphene for solar cells.
In 2015 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Allen Goldman , Aharon Kapitulnik and Matthew PA Fisher for the discovery and research of superconductor-insulator junctions as a paradigm of quantum phase transitions. In 2008 he received the James McGroddy Prize for New Materials from the APS. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society . In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
He was married to Caroline Hebard (1944-2007), who is known for search and rescue dogs.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hebard et al. a., Superconductivity at 18 K in potassium-doped C60, Nature, Volume 350, 1991, p. 600
- ^ Buckley Prize 2015
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| SURNAME | Hebard, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hebard, Arthur Foster |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |