Richard L. Greene

Richard L. Greene (born 1938) is an American physicist. He is a distinguished university professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He is known for his experimental research related to novel superconducting and magnetic materials.

Not to be confused with Richard Leighton Greene.
Richard L. Greene
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
Known forSuperconducting Materials and Properties
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, IBM, U.S. Navy
ThesisFluorescence in Antiferromagnetic MnF2
Doctoral advisorArthur Schawlow

Career

Greene served in the Navy at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard where he was an officer in charge of the construction of the USS Halsey (DLG 23). He was awarded a PhD at Stanford University, where he and his collaborators discovered the first optical signatures of spin waves in insulating antiferromagnetic materials.[1] As a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford he and his collaborators invented the thermal relaxation method for measuring the specific heat of small samples, a technique now widely used commercially in the Quantum Design Physical Properties Measurement System.[2] In 1970 he became a staff member (and later a group manager) at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, CA where he and collaborators discovered the first known polymeric and two-dimensional organic superconductors.[3][4][5] In 1989 he became a physics professor and founding director of the Center for Superconductivity Research at the University of Maryland in College Park. His group has made significant contributions to the physics of high temperature superconductors and novel magnetic and topological materials.[6][7][8] His over 400 publications are cited over 33,000 times with an h-index of 96. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9] The American Physical Society Dissertation Award for Experiential Condensed Matter Physics is named in his honor.[10]

Awards and honors
  • IBM Outstanding Contribution Award, August 1975.[11]
  • Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 1980.[11]
  • Elected to Executive Committee of APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, 1992–1995.[11]
  • Thomson - ISI 200 Most Highly cited Physicist, 1981–2001.[11]
  • Alford L. Ward Professorship of Physics, University of Maryland, 2007–2010.[11]
  • Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010.[11]
  • Elected Vice-Chair of APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, 2020–21.[11]
  • Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, 2022 .[11]

References
  1. Greene, R. L.; Sell, D. D.; Yen, W. M.; Schawlow, A. L.; White, R. M. (1965-10-18). "Observation of a spin-wave sideband in the optical spectrum of ${\mathrm{mnf}}_{2}$". Physical Review Letters. 15 (16): 656–659. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.656.
  2. Bachmann, R.; DiSalvo, F. J.; Geballe, T. H.; Greene, R. L.; Howard, R. E.; King, C. N.; Kirsch, H. C.; Lee, K. N.; Schwall, R. E.; Thomas, H.‐U.; Zubeck, R. B. (1972-02-01). "Heat Capacity Measurements on Small Samples at Low Temperatures". Review of Scientific Instruments. 43 (2): 205–214. Bibcode:1972RScI...43..205B. doi:10.1063/1.1685596. ISSN 0034-6748.
  3. Rothenberg, Marian S. (1975-06-01). "Superconductivity in novel sulfur–nitrogen polymer". Physics Today. 28 (6): 17–20. Bibcode:1975PhT....28f..17R. doi:10.1063/1.3068999. ISSN 0031-9228.
  4. Lubkin, Gloria B. (1981-02-01). "Organic charge‐transfer salt shows superconductivity". Physics Today. 34 (2): 17–19. Bibcode:1981PhT....34b..17L. doi:10.1063/1.2914428. ISSN 0031-9228.
  5. Maugh, Thomas H. (1983-11-11). "Number of Organic Superconductors Grows: New discoveries suggest that the superconductivity of certain organic salts is a general phenomena". Science. 222 (4624): 606–607. doi:10.1126/science.222.4624.606. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17843830.
  6. Armitage, N. P.; Fournier, P.; Greene, R. L. (2010-09-10). "Progress and perspectives on electron-doped cuprates". Reviews of Modern Physics. 82 (3): 2421–2487. arXiv:0906.2931. Bibcode:2010RvMP...82.2421A. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.82.2421. S2CID 118572903.
  7. Paglione, Johnpierre; Greene, Richard L. (September 2010). "High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials". Nature Physics. 6 (9): 645–658. arXiv:1006.4618. Bibcode:2010NatPh...6..645P. doi:10.1038/nphys1759. ISSN 1745-2481. S2CID 19024418.
  8. Greene, Richard L.; Mandal, Pampa R.; Poniatowski, Nicholas R.; Sarkar, Tarapada (2020-03-10). "The Strange Metal State of the Electron-Doped Cuprates". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 11 (1): 213–229. arXiv:1905.04998. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031119-050558. ISSN 1947-5454. S2CID 152282382.
  9. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  10. "Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  11. Suplee, Anne. "Greene, Richard - UMD Physics". umdphysics.umd.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
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