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Cherry A. Murray
American professor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cherry A. Murray is an American academic who is professor of physics and the director of the Biosphere2 Institute at the University of Arizona at Tucson.[1] She is the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy emerita[2] at, and former dean of, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
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Cherry Ann Murray | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | S.B. (Physics) (MIT, 1973), Ph.D. (Physics) (MIT, 1978) |
Awards | American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award (1989), American Physical Society George E. Pake Prize (2005), National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2012) |
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Fields | Physics, Applied physics, Experimental physics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, United States Department of Energy |
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She was the 2009 president of the American Physical Society (APS) and chair of the Division of Engineering and Physical Science of the National Research Council.[3][4] In October 2014, she announced via an email to the Harvard community that she would be stepping down from her post at the end of the year, with an interim dean to be named by FAS Dean Michael Smith and a permanent dean following a formal search.[5]