David E. Moncton

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David E. Moncton (* 1949 ) is an American physicist and director of the Nuclear Research Reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , Massachusetts .

Life

Moncton received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the same year he went to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey as a Member of Technical Staff until 1982 . He then became a physicist and group leader at the Brookhaven National Laboratory until 1985 . Until 1990 he was Senior Research Associate and Group Head of Exxon Corporate Research. Moncton was in a senior position responsible for the design and construction of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory and later assumed a senior role in the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . Between September 2001 and January 2004 he was Visiting Professor at MIT before becoming Director of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

research

Moncton mainly uses X-ray and neutron scattering for experimental research into condensed matter . His best-known works include investigations into charge density waves and order phenomena in thin films of liquid crystals.

Prizes and awards

In 1982 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2005 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. In 1987, he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his work with synchrotron X-rays .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Moncton: From MIT graduate student to NRL Director | MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. Accessed October 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ David E. Moncton: Resume | MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. Accessed October 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ DE Moncton, JD Ax, FJ DiSalvo: Neutron scattering study of the charge-density wave transitions in 2H - TaSe 2 and 2H - NbSe 2 . In: Physical Review B . tape 16 , no. 2 , July 15, 1977, p. 801–819 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevB.16.801 ( aps.org [accessed October 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ DE Moncton, R. Pinďák: long-range order in Two- and Three-Dimensional SMECTIC-B Liquid Crystal Films . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 43 , no. 10 , September 3, 1979, pp. 701–704 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.43.701 ( aps.org [accessed October 30, 2018]).
  5. ^ The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award - Award Laureates. Accessed October 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Moncton, David E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949