Gen Shirane

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Gen Shirane (born May 15, 1924 in Nishinomiya , Japan , † January 16, 2005 in Bellport , New York ) was a Japanese-American experimental solid-state physicist, known for his study of phase transitions in solids with neutron scattering.

Shirane studied at the University of Tokyo (Bachelor 1947), where he received his doctorate in 1954 (on ferroelectrics ), while at the same time he researched from 1948 at the Technical University in Tokyo and from 1952 at the Pennsylvania State University . In 1955 he became an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State. In 1956 he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory and from 1957 at the laboratories of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation . From 1963 (after Westinghouse cut his budget for basic research) he was again at Brookhaven National Laboratory, from 1968 until his death as a result of a stroke as a senior scientist.

Shirane was a leading authority on neutron spectroscopy in solid state physics (used by him from 1955 for structural studies with neutron diffraction), with which he investigated ferroelectrics, superconductors including high-temperature superconductors, magnetic materials. With the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR), operating in Brookhaven from 1965 , he studied a wide variety of phenomena with inelastic neutron scattering: spin waves and critical phenomena in ferromagnets, low-dimensional antiferromagnets (among others with Robert J. Birgeneau ), electron- phonon coupling in superconductors, Structural phase transitions and soft phonon modes (with confirmation of the theory of Philip Warren Anderson and W. Cochrane), ferroelectrics, high-temperature superconductors. He published over 750 papers.

In 1973 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and the Warren Award from the American Crystallographic Association . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1989 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1991 . He received the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award and in 1989 the DOE Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Physics. In 2004 he received the Prize of the Japanese Physical Society for Neutron Physics .

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  • with Franco Jona: Ferroelectric Crystals . 1962

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