Charles Falco ASU March 2019 SciAPP conference

Charles M. Falco (born August 17, 1948) is an American experimental

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and an expert on the magnetic and optical properties of thin film materials.

Biography

Falco earned his Ph.D. at the

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in 1974 and spent the next eight years at Argonne National Laboratory before joining the

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in 1982 as a Professor of Optical Sciences. In 1989, he received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished U.S. Scientist Award, and in 1998 was awarded the UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics. Falco, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the

Optical Society of America Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts, most of which are related to physical properties of materials produced by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), co-edited two books, has seven U.S. patents, and has given more than 250 invited talks on his research at conferences and research institutions in 25 countries. In addition to his scientific research, in 1975 Falco was one of three participants in

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's performance art piece '220', and since 1985 his

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has been represented by the agency PhotoResearchers. In 1998 Falco was co-curator of the

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's ''

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'', for which he also wrote the exhibition catalog's introductory essay and bibliography. With over 2 million visitors in New York, Chicago, Bilbao, Spain and the Guggenheim Las Vegas, it was the most successful exhibition of industrial design ever assembled, and one of the most attended museum exhibition of any kind.Slate
/ref> For this work he received an award from the International Association of Art Critics, along with architect Frank Gehry, museum director

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, and filmmaker Ultan Guilfoyle. In 1999, Falco was a technical advisor for the

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retrospective at the Guggenheim. In 2000, Falco began collaborating with the British-American artist

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, resulting in their discovery of scientific evidence in paintings made as early as c.1430 that demonstrated portions of them were created with the aid of optical projections. Hockney's 2001 book ''Secret Knowledge'' resulted in widespread coverage of the " Hockney-Falco Thesis" in the popular media, including an hour-long

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