Irina Borisovna Novikova (born 1975) is a Russian-American physicist specializing in
quantum optics
Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have ...
. She is a professor of physics at the
College of William & Mary
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.
Early life and education
Novikova was born in 1975 in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
, the daughter of a physicist, and earned a diploma in engineering physics and solid state physics,
summa cum laude, from the
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (russian: Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ" / НИЯУ МИФИ or ) is a technical un ...
in 1998. She completed her Ph.D. in physics in 2003 at
Texas A&M University
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, with the dissertation ''Nonlinear magneto-optic effects in optically dense Rb vapor'', supervised by George R. Welch.
Recognition
Novikova was named an
Optica (OSA) Fellow, in the class of 2020, "for outstanding research of quantum coherence phenomena in atomic vapors, and ongoing service to OSA and the optics community". She was named a
Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for outstanding research on quantum coherence in atomic vapors, including electromagnetically induced transparency and optical magnetometry, and ongoing educational outreach activities in optics and physics".
References
External links
Home page*
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1975 births
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
Russian physicists
Russian women physicists
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni
Texas A&M University alumni
College of William & Mary faculty
Fellows of Optica (society)
Fellows of the American Physical Society