Walter N. Hardy
Walter Newbold Hardy (born March 25, 1940 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian physicist.
Hardy studied at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1961 and a doctorate in 1965. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the CEA in Saclay . From 1966 to 1971 he worked for Rockwell International . In 1971 he became associate professor and 1980 professor at the University of British Columbia.
He deals with high-temperature superconductors , such as crystal growth methods for these materials, and with the development of microwave measurement techniques.
In 2002 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for his investigation into d-wave pairing in the high-temperature superconductor yttrium-barium-copper oxide . In 1978 he received the Steacie Prize and the Herzberg Medal from the Canadian Association of Physicists. He was a Sloan Fellow from 1972 to 1974 and a Killam Fellow from 1984 to 1986. In 1996 he was visiting professor in Groningen and in 1980/81 at the École normal supérieure (Paris) . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Together with Doug Bonn and Ruixing Liang, he received the Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering, for having succeeded in growing crystals of high-temperature superconductors of the highest quality, which they also passed on to other laboratories around the world.
Since the 2000s he has been a member of the ALPHA collaboration (Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus) at CERN , in which the properties of anti-hydrogen are investigated using laser spectroscopy.
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- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ ALPHA collaboration
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hardy, Walter N. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hardy, Walter Newbold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver |