Michael F. Crommie (born December 1961) is an American physicist, a professor of physics at the

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. World-renowned for his research on condensed-matter physics, he is a recipient of both the Newcomb-Cleveland Prize and the Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic Physics. Crommie currently directs the Crommie Research Group.Faculty profile
UC Berkeley, retrieved 2011-05-05.

Education

Crommie completed his undergraduate studies at the

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, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984. He completed his doctoral studies under

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at UC Berkeley, receiving a Ph.D. in 1991, and was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM under

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. In 2007 he was elected as a fellow of the

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Research

Crommie's research group currently uses scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Crommie is known for demonstrating the

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in 1993 with Lutz and Eigler by using an elliptical ring of cobalt atoms on a copper surface. The ferromagnetic cobalt atoms reflected the surface electrons of the copper inside the ring into a wave pattern, as predicted by the theory of quantum mechanics.

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The Crommie Research Group at UC Berkeley
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