Richard E. Packard

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Richard Packard

Richard E. Packard (born October 15, 1943 in Rochester (New York) ) is an American experimental solid-state physicist.

Packard studied physics at the State University of New York at Buffalo with a bachelor's degree in 1964, at the University of Vermont with a master's degree in 1966 and was at the University of Michigan with a doctorate in 1969. He was then at the University of California , Berkeley , where he became Assistant Professor in 1971 and Professor in 1981.

Packard is concerned with condensed matter physics (solid state physics), experimental low temperature physics, quantum liquids (superfluid He 3 and 4) and nanophysics. Among other things, he developed a Superfluid Helium Gyroscope (SHEG), which, like SQUIDs in superconductors, is based on quantum mechanical interference effects. It can reveal very small changes in the state of rotation of the container that the superfluid contains helium.

In 2005 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize . He received the Fritz London Prize “in recognition of his investigations into important macroscopic quantum effects in superfluid helium at the single quantum level, including the discovery of single quantized vortex lines, the photography of quantized vortices and the proof of the quantization of the rotation in helium 3, as well as for the development of weakly coupled arrays in both Helium 3 and Helum 4 and the discovery of a variety of related phenomena including quantum interference ”(laudatory speech).

In 1983 he gave the Ehrenfest lecture in Leiden. In 1988 and 1997 he was Miller Professor at Berkeley. In 1978/79 he was Senior Fellow of the Sciences Research Council in Great Britain, in 1983 Fulbright-Hayes visiting professor in Finland and in 1986 visiting scholar in Japan. He was also visiting professor in Padua. Packard is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the California Academy of Sciences.

Fonts (selection)

  • with S. Vitale: Principles of Superfluid Gyroscopes, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 46, 1992, p. 3540
  • with RW Simmonds: Quantum interference of superfluid He-3, Nature, Volume 412, 2001, p. 55

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Laudation London Prize ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (pdf) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phy.duke.edu
personal data
SURNAME Packard, Richard E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York)