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Myriam Sarachik

Myriam P. Sarachik

1933-
Contributions
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Some Important Contributions

In chronological order:

  • Determined the superconducting energy gap from measurements of the superconducting penetration depth in the "classic" superconductors tin and lead.
  • Established the correspondence between a minimum in the electrical resistivity of an alloy as a function of temperature and the presence of dilute magnetic moments. This work played a key experimental role in support of the theoretical advance embodied in the Kondo effect.
  • Measurements of the effect of a magnetic field on the electrical conductivity of doped semiconductors near the metal-insulator transition showed that application of a magnetic field changes the universality of the transition.
  • Established that the Hall coefficient diverges at the metal-insulator transition in doped silicon.
  • Measurements of the nonlinear electric field response in a two-dimensional electron gas showed a conductivity/resistivity reflection scaling across the metal-insulator transition.
  • Discovered steps in the hysteresis loop of a magnetic molecular crystal that showed macroscopic quantum tunneling in a large spin system.

    Honors

    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Fellow, American Physical Society
    Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences
    Recipient, 1995 NYC Mayor's Award for Excellence in Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

    Jobs/Positions

    1954-55 Research Assistant, IBM Watson Laboratories, Columbia University
    1960-61 Research Associate, IBM Watson Laboratories, Columbia University; and Instructor, City College, City University of New York
    1962-64 Member, Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
    1965-67 Assistant Professor, City College, City University of New York
    1967-71 Associate Professor, City College, City University of New York
    1971-present Professor, City College, City University of New York
    1975-78 Executive Officer, CUNY Ph.D. Program in Physics
    1995-present Distinguished Professor, City College, City University of New York

    Education

    B.A. Barnard College 1954
    M.S. Columbia University 1957
    Ph.D. Columbia University 1960

    Sources and References

    Myriam Sarachik and [amw1992]

    Additional Information

    Born in Antwerp, Belgium and attended primary school in Antwerp and Havana, Cuba.

    Attended Bronx High School of Science in New York.

    Member of the Board of Directors of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, and of the Human Rights of Scientists Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences.

    Some Professional Activities
    For the American Physical Society:

    Member of Nominating Committee, and Chair from 1990 to 1992.
    Member of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics.
    Member and Chair of the Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists.
    Elected to a three-year term from 1981 on the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics.

    Field Editor: Professor W. Gilbert Clark

    <wgclark@physics.ucla.edu>

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