William A. Little
William Arthur Little (born November 17, 1930 in Adelaide (South Africa) ) is an American experimental solid-state physicist.
Little received his doctorate in 1955 from Rhodes University in South Africa with John Betteley Birks and again in 1957 at the University of Glasgow with Samuel Crow Curran (dissertation: The Overhauser effect in solids). From 1956 to 1958 he was a Fellow of the National Research Council of Canada at the University of British Columbia. In 1958 he became an assistant professor and from 1965 until his retirement in 1994 professor at Stanford University .
He deals with low temperature physics and superconductivity (organic superconductors, ceramic high temperature superconductors ), magnetic resonance, organic fluorescence, phase transitions, chemical physics and the theory of neural networks. The Little Parks Effect is named after him and his PhD student Roland D. Parks .
He is a US citizen. Little is a Fellow of the American Physical Society . 1964/65 he was Guggenheim Fellow (and visiting professor at the University of Geneva) and 1959 to 1962 Sloan Research Fellow.
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- ↑ Birth and career dates Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Little, William A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Little, William Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adelaide (South Africa) |