Humphrey Maris

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Humphrey John Maris (born April 25, 1939 in Ipswich ) is a British solid-state physicist and professor at Brown University .

Maris studied at Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a doctorate in 1963. His dissertation was on high-frequency sound in solids. He was a post-doctoral student at the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland until 1965 and then was at Brown University, where he became a professor.

Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the University of Stuttgart, the Universities of Tokyo and Hokkaido, the Argentine Research Center in Bariloche, the École normal supérieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute in Grenoble, the Chalmers Institute for Technology in Gothenburg, and the Kapiza Institute in Moscow and the University of East Anglia.

Among other things, he dealt with the propagation of sound in liquid helium, magnetic levitation , ultrasound, lattice dynamics, ultra-fast optics, detection of solar neutrinos and the development of new measuring devices that were widely used in the semiconductor industry.

In 2011 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for his original theories and experimental discoveries in liquid helium regarding phonons, Kapiza resistance, levitation, nucleation, electron bubbles and the visualization of eddies (laudation).

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and received a Humboldt Research Award (1989).

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  1. ↑ Birth dates American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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personal data
SURNAME Maris, Humphrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maris, Humphrey John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British solid state physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich