Myriam Sarachik

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Myriam Paula Sarachik (born August 8, 1933 in Antwerp ) is an American physicist who deals with experimental solid-state physics.

Sarachik went to school in Antwerp and Havana , Cuba, and attended the Bronx High School of Science . In 1954 she received her bachelor's degree in physics from Barnard College , spent a year at IBM Watson Laboratories at Columbia University, and received her master’s degree from Columbia University in 1957 , where she received her doctorate in 1960. She then went back to work at IBM Watson Laboratories and taught at the same time at the City College of New York in the evenings before joining Bell Laboratories in 1962 . In 1964 she became an Assistant Professor , in 1967 Associate Professor and in 1971 Professor at CUNY's City College of New York . She has been a Distinguished Professor there since 1995 .

The topic of her dissertation was the penetration depth for magnetic fields in thin superconducting films made of lead and tin and from this the determination of the energy gap in the excitation spectrum of the superconductor. At Bell Laboratories, she carried out important experiments to test the theory of the Kondo effect .

Furthermore, she dealt with doped semiconductors near the metal-insulator junction, strongly correlated electron systems in two dimensions and macroscopic magnetic quantum tunneling in spin systems.

In 2005 she received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Physical Society (APS), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Sciences . In 2006 she received an honorary doctorate from Amherst College . In 1995 she received the New York Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science . In 2003 she was President of the APS. In 2004 she received the UNESCO L'Oréal Prize . She is a human rights activist with both the APS and the New York Academy of Sciences and serves on the Council of the Committee of Concerned Scientists .

Myriam Sarachik has been married to Philip E. Sarachik (* 1931, Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University), with whom she has a daughter, since 1954.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Sarachik, Richard Garwin , E. Erlbach Observations of the Energy Gap by Low Temperature Penetration Depth Measurements in Lead , Phys.Rev.Lett, Volume 4, 1960, pp 52-55
  3. ↑ Sarachik, Garwin, Erlbach Measurement of Magnetic Field Attenuation by Thin Superconducting Films , IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 4, 1960, p 107
  4. ↑ E. Corenzwit, LD Longinotti, Sarachik Resistivity of Mo-Nb and Mo-Re Alloys Containing 1% Fe , Phys. Rev., Volume 135A, 1964, p. 1041
  5. ↑ Peihua Dai, Youzhu Zhang, Sarachik Electrical Conductivity of metallic Si: B near the Metal Insulator Transition , Phys. Rev. B 45, 1992, p. 3984
  6. ↑ Snezana Bogdanovich, Peihua Dai, Youzhu Zhang, Sarachik The Critical Exponent Conductivity of Si: P in a Magnetic Fields , "Phys Rev. B 48, 1993, p 4,941th
  7. ↑ Peihua Dai, Youzhu Zhang, Sarachik Critical Behavior of the Hall coefficient of Si: P at the metal-insulator transition , Phys. Rev. B 49, 1994, p. 14039
  8. ↑ S. v. Kravchenko, D. Simonian, Whitney Mason, J. Furneaux, Sarachik Electric Field Scaling at a B = 0 Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 77, 1996, p. 4938
  9. ↑ Jonathan Friedman, J. Tejada, R. Ziolo, Sarachik Macroscopic Measurement of Magnetization Tunneling in High-Spin Molecules , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 76, 1996, p. 3830
personal data
SURNAME Sarachik, Myriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarachik, Myriam Paula (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp