Paul Linford Richards
Paul Linford Richards (born June 4, 1934 in Ithaca (New York) ) is an American astrophysicist.
Richards graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and received a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960 . In 1959/60 he was at the Moon Laboratory at Cambridge University. From 1960 to 1966 he was at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill and from 1966 to 2005 professor at Berkeley University. In 1970/71 and 1987/88 he was a member of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science in Berkeley.
In 1973/74 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Cambridge and in 1982 with a Humboldt Research Award at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. In 1984 and 1995 he was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure in Paris and at the Paris Observatory and he was visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and at the University of Rome. From 1975 to 1992 he was a consultant to NASA .
He developed detectors for infrared and in the millimeter wave range.
In 2000 he received the Frank Isakson Prize for the American Physical Society for the development of innovative infrared techniques and pioneering research in spectroscopy in the far infrared (laudation), the Button Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1987 and the Dan David Prize in 2009 . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984) and the National Academy of Sciences (1985). In 1981 he was named California Scientist of the Year.
His PhD students include John C. Mather and Andrew E. Lange .
He has been married since 1965 and has two daughters. His hobby is viticulture.
Web links
- Oral History Interview at the AIP (2008, with biography)
- prabook
Individual evidence
- ^ Isakson Prize, APS
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter R. (PDF; 508 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richards, Paul Linford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ithaca (New York) |