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

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, moving to

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during

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with his parents, who were social scientists. He was a high school and college

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player, earning All-Metropolitan honors at

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, and playing for the Cornell Big Red in 1958-59. At

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, Beasley earned his

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in engineering physics in 1962 and his

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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

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, and after

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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

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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

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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

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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 {{US-physicist-stub