Michael Tinkham
Michael "Mike" Tinkham (born February 23, 1928 in Green Lake County , Wisconsin , † November 4, 2010 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American physicist who dealt with solid-state physics.
Tinkham studied at Ripon College (Bachelor 1951) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master 1951), where he received his PhD in 1954. 1954/55 he was at the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford and from 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley , where he was assistant professor and then professor in 1957. In 1958 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1966 he was a professor at Harvard University . Since 1966 he was Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Physics and also since 1980 Rumford Research Professor of Physics . From 1975 to 1978 he headed the physics faculty. In 1978/79 he was a Humboldt US Senior Scientist at the University of Karlsruhe .
He was best known for his work on superconductors , as early as 1956 he was able to show by means of optical spectroscopy that superconductors have an energy gap. This was important experimental evidence of a key message of the BCS theory . He also wrote a standard textbook on superconductivity. In the 2000s, he worked on materials with dimensions in the nanometer range such as nanowires and carbon nanotubes .
In 1967 Tinkham was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1970 . In 1974 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize .
Fonts
- Superconductivity, Gordon and Breach 1966
- Introduction to Superconductivity, McGraw Hill 1975, 2nd edition 1996, Dover 2004
- Group theory and quantum mechanics, McGraw Hill 1964, Dover 2003
Web links
- Michael Tinkham's website ( June 12, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Michael Tinkham, superconductivity pioneer, passes away at 82 in: Harvard University, November 5, 2010, accessed November 10, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ RE Glover, M. Tinkham: Transmission of Superconducting Films at Millimeter-Microwave and Far Infrared Frequencies . In: Physical Review . tape 104 , no. 3 , November 1, 1956, ISSN 0031-899X , p. 844–845 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.104.844 ( aps.org [accessed June 17, 2020]).
- ↑ M. Tinkham: Energy Gap Interpretation of Experiments on Infrared Transmission through Superconducting Films . In: Physical Review . tape 104 , no. 3 , November 1, 1956, ISSN 0031-899X , p. 845–846 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.104.845 ( aps.org [accessed June 17, 2020]).
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 11, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tinkham, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tinkham, Mike (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Green Lake County , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 2010 |
| Place of death | Portland , Oregon |