Zachary Fisk
Zachary Fisk (born September 3, 1941 in New York City ) is an American solid-state physicist. He is known for contributions to heavy ferrous metals and superconductors.
Life
His father was the director of Bell Labs in New Jersey. Fisk graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and received a PhD in physics from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1969 . 1971/72 he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and from 1972 to 1981 research physicist at UCSD. After that he was a fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) until 1994 . There he grew crystals first as part of weapons research, then as part of independent solid-state research. In 2002/03 he was again a visiting scientist at the LANL. From 1991 to 1996 he was a professor at UCSD, from 1996 to 2003 at Florida State University in Tallahassee (where he went for the National High Magnetic Field Lab ) and from 2003 to 2006 at the University of California, Davis , before becoming a Distinguished Professor in 2006 from the University of California, Irvine .
He was already a student at LANL and was a student and close collaborator of Bernd T. Matthias at UCSD. For Matthias he synthesized numerous intermetallic compounds for the investigation of superconductivity and other properties.
Awards
- In 1990 he received the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for the discovery and research of materials with heavy fermions.
- In 1995 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
- In 1996 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
- In 2015 he received the Bernd T. Matthias Prize for the discovery of UBe13, UPt3, ThCoC2 and LaRhSi3 and for elucidating the role of heavy fermions and the lack of inversion symmetry in superconductivity (laudation).
Web links
- Homepage
- Oral History Interview, AIP, with biography
- Virginia Gewin, Zachary Fisk, distinguished professor of physics, University of California, Irvine , Nature, Volume 440, Apr. 26, 2006, p. 1242
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Matthias Prize , 2015, laudation: for the discovery of UBe13, UPt3, ThCoC2 and LaRhSi3, for unraveling the roles of heavy fermions and non-centrosymmetry in superconductivity.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fisk, Zachary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American solid-state physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |