Myriam Sarachik
Belgian-American physicist (1933ā2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933 ā October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics. From 1996, she was a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York. She is known for the first experimental confirmation of the Kondo effect in the 1960s.
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Myriam Sarachik | |
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Born | Myriam Paula Morgenstein (1933-08-08)August 8, 1933 Antwerp, Belgium |
Died | October 7, 2021(2021-10-07) (aged 88) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | Barnard College (BA) Columbia University (MS, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | City College of New York |
Thesis | Penetration of magnetic fields through superconducting lead films (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Garwin |
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