Nora Berrah

Nora Berrah (born June 11, 1955 ) is an American physicist in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics.

Life

Berrah grew up in Algeria and studied physics at the University of Algiers (graduation 1979). In 1987 she received her PhD from the University of Virginia . She spent the next four years at the Argonne National Laboratory . In 1991 she became an assistant professor at Western Michigan University and there in 2000 a full professor . Since 2014 she has been Professor and Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Berrah researches the interaction of molecules , clusters and nanostructures with light, UV and X-rays . Among other things, she is investigating electron correlations, charge transfer and many-particle effects with the long-term goal of quantum control of the dynamics of the molecular system. Her research focus is on the investigation of ultrafast processes in the femto and attosecond range using femtosecond and free-electron lasers . In an experiment published in 2011, she and her team demonstrated for the first time a theoretically predicted new spectroscopic technique in which two electrons close to the nucleus are ionized at the same time using intense laser radiation. The resulting double-core-hole (DCH) states then make it possible to spectrally differentiate chemically very similar molecules.

Awards

• 1992: Humboldt grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin)
• 1999: Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
• 2002: David. S. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievements at the Advanced Light Source , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 2014: Davisson-Germer Prize of the APS
• 2019: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fonts (selection)

• Double-core-hole spectroscopy for chemical analysis with an intense X-ray femtosecond laser . In: PNAS . tape 108 , no. 41 , October 11, 2011, p. 6912–16915 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1111380108 (English).
• Nora Berrah, Philip H. Bucksbaum: Acceleration Physics: The Ultimate X-ray Machine . In: Spectrum of Science . No. 10 , July 2014, p. 78–86 ( Spektrum.de - login required).
• Marc Humphrey, Paul V. Pancella, Nora Berrah: Quantum Physics (=  Idiot's Guides ). Alpha, 2015, ISBN 978-1-61564-317-2 .
• List of publications (since 2010). UConn.edu(English). 

Web links

• Homepage Nora Berrah. University of Connecticut(English, with link to CV and list of publications). 
• Biography of Nora Berrah. Western Michigan University, archived from the original on June 27, 2012 . 
• WMU international researcher out to double the number of women in physics Dr. Berrah. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the electoral roll. June 5, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Nora Berrah: CV. uconn.edu, accessed on October 18, 2018 . 
3. ↑ PhD in Physics under Dan Larson with a dissertation entitled Laser Photodetachment of HS ^- Trapped in a Penning Trap .
4. ↑ Christine Buckley: Laser Physicist Nora Berrah Joins UConn Faculty. In: UConn Today. January 27, 2014, accessed October 18, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Prof. Nora Berrah: research home page. UConn.edu, accessed on October 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Stuart Mason Dambrot: Bright lights, small systems: Molecular differentiation using free-electron laser. In: Phys.org. October 28, 2011, accessed October 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Prize Recipient Nora Berrah. Retrieved October 10, 2013 .