Malcolm Roy Beasley (born January 4, 1940 in San Francisco)
is an American physicist. He is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at
Stanford University. He is known for his research related to
superconductivity.
Early life and education
Beasley was born at
Stanford hospital
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, moving to
Hawaii
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during
World War II
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with his parents, who were social scientists.
He was a high school and college
basketball
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player, earning All-Metropolitan honors at
Montgomery Blair High School
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in
Silver Spring, Maryland
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, and playing for the
Cornell Big Red in 1958-59.
At
Cornell University
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, Beasley earned his
bachelor's degree
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in engineering physics in 1962 and his
Ph.D.
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in 1967.
His Ph.D. thesis ''Flux creep in hard superconductors'' was supervised by
Watt W. Webb.
Academic career
Beasley joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1968 where he remained until accepting a position at Stanford in 1974.
He was recruited to Stanford by
Theodore Geballe
Theodore Henry Geballe (January 20, 1920 – October 23, 2021) was an American physicist who was a professor of applied physics at Stanford University. He was known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of ...
, and after
Aharon Kapitulnik
Aharon Kapitulnik (born 1953) is an Israeli-American experimental condensed matter physicist working at Stanford University. He is known primarily for his work on strongly correlated electron systems, low dimensional electronic systems, unconven ...
joined the applied physics department, the three Stanford superconductivity researchers became known as the "KGB Group."
In 1991, Beasley was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
He was elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
In 1998, Beasley was named dean of the
School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.
In 2002, Beasley served as chairman of the
Jan Hendrik Schön
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commission, which determined that Schön fabricated much of his published research.
In 2011, Beasley was elected to the Presidential line of the
American Physical Society, becoming APS President in 2014.
References
External links
Stanford University Research Group
1940 births
Living people
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
Stanford University Department of Physics faculty
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American scientists
Presidents of the American Physical Society
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