Arthur P. Ramirez
Arthur P. Ramirez (born August 4, 1956 in Amityville ) is an American solid-state physicist.
Ramirez studied physics at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1984 with a dissertation on the thermodynamics of solitons in quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnets CsNiF3. He then worked for Bell Laboratories until 2000 . From 2001 to 2003 he was group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory and from 2003 back at Bell Labs as director of solid state physics. He is Professor of Physics and, since 2009, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz .
In addition to geometrically frustrated magnets such as spin ice (and magnetism in low-dimensional systems) and spin glasses, he dealt with high-temperature superconductors (identification of superconductivity in (La, Sr) 2CuO4, co-discoverer of superconductivity in fullerenes doped with potassium) and the CMR effect (Phase diagram of (La, Ca) MnO3). He also dealt with heavy ferrous metals , thermoelectric coolers, organic semiconductors and multiferroics . At Bell-Labs he led the development of a magnetometer based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).
In 2011 he received the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for intellectual leadership in identifying geometrically frustrated magnets as an important class of solid materials. (Laudatory speech). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ For the intellectual leadership in the identification of geometrically frustrated magnets as an important class of materials.
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| SURNAME | Ramirez, Arthur P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amityville |