Robert J. Cava

Henry Krawczyk (left) with Robert Cava (right)

Robert Joseph Cava (* 1951 ) is an American chemist and materials scientist who deals with solid-state chemistry (electronically strongly correlated materials). He is a professor at Princeton University .

Cava received his bachelor's and master's degrees in materials science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1974 . In 1978 he received his doctorate there under BJ Wuensch with the topic A study of the mobile ions in several binary fast ion conductors . From 1979 to 1996 he was at Bell Laboratories , from 1985 as Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, and from 1996 he was Professor at Princeton. Since 2006 he has been Russell William Moore Professor of Chemistry there.

He was visiting scientist at the Danish Nuclear Research Center in Risø, the National Institute of Standards and Technology , the Brookhaven National Laboratory , the Laboratory for Crystallography in Grenoble and the Institute for Chemical Research in Kyoto.

He is particularly known for his search for new oxide high-temperature superconductors , starting with the copper oxide superconductors in the late 1980s to the new superconductors made from iron picnics in the late 2000s. He is also looking for new metal superconductors, dielectrics, thermoelectric and magnetoresistive materials, clear conductors and frustrated and low-dimensional magnets, and in general for new solid-state materials with transition metals and rare earth alloys with special electronic properties. He also works on topological isolators .

He published over 500 papers (2003) and holds 15 patents.

In 2012 he received the Linus Pauling Award and in 2011 the Humboldt Research Award and the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry . In 2001 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1988 a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1997 he received the Bernd T. Matthias Prize for new superconductor materials and in 2005 the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2016 he was elected to the Royal Society as a foreign member .

Web links

• CV at Princeton

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert Cava at academictree.org, accessed on 23 January 2018th
2. ↑ Pnictides are compounds with arsenic, phosphorus, antimony or bismuth
3. ↑ Humboldt Research Prize for Cava, University of Mainz ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.