Vol. 07 No. 1, 2000 - Department of Physics - University of ...

FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS
Professor Himpsel receives
named professorship
Congratulations to Franz Himpsel who became
the Ednor M. Rowe Professor of Physics through a
named WARF/University Houses Named Professorship.
This Professorship will cover a five-year
period (July 1, 2000–June 30, 2005).
Franz Himpsel joined the department in 1995. He
received his Ph.D. at the University of Munich in
1976, followed by a post-doc at IBM Watson
Labs. He became a staff member at IBM in 1980
and continued his work there until coming to
U.W. Madison as professor and Associate Director
of the U.W. Synchrotron Radiation Center. In
1997, he became Co-Director of the Synchrotron.
Since he is also an active user of the facility,
Himpsel has been
able to provide
crucial scientific
leadership from a
unique perspective.
Himpsel’s
work has emphasized
surface physics
studies utilizing
synchrotron radiation,
in particular,
the electronic
structure of semiconductor
surfaces
Franz Himpsel
and magnetic
nanostructures. He has played a significant role in
developing core level spectroscopy and in mapping
energy bands via angle-resolved photo
emission and inverse photo emission. Currently,
he is interested in finding self-assembly techniques
for producing tailored materials such as
arrays of nanowires.
Professor Himpsel has also received the Peter
Mark Award of the American Vacuum Society,
1985. He is a Fellow in the American Physical Society
and the American Vacuum Society and a
member of the New York Academy of Science.
Barger wins 2000 Hilldale Award
Congratulations to Vernon Barger, whose research
has steered the course of particle physics
for three decades, upon winning
the 2000 Hilldale Award
in the Physical Sciences. Professor
Barger is the founder
and director of the Institute
for Elementary Particle Physics
Research and a Fellow of the
American Physical Society.
Barger received his Ph.D. from
Penn State University in 1963
and came to Wisconsin that
year as a Research Associate.
He became an Assistant Professor
in 1965 and a full professor
in 1968. He has co-authored four text
Vernon Barger
books during his tenure at Madison:
Phenomenological Theories of High Energy Scatterings:
An Experimental Evaluation (with D. Cline),
1969; Classical Mechanics: A Modern Perspective
(with M. G. Olsson), 1973; Classical Electricity and
Magnetism: A Contemporary Perspective (with M.
G. Olsson), 1987; and Collider Physics (with R. J.
N. Phillips), 1987.
Barger has also held a University Houses Professorship
as J. H. Van Vleck Professor of Physics
since 1983, a Hilldale Professorship from 1987–
91, and a Vilas Professorship since 1991. The last
Physics Department faculty member to receive
the prestigious Hilldale award was Willy Haeberli
in 1995.
Mark Eriksson awarded
Packard Fellowship
Assistant Professor Mark Eriksson has been
awarded a David and Lucille Packard Fellowship
for Science and Engineering. Mark completed his
undergraduate work at UW-Madison in 1992 and
went on to complete a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1997
under Professor Robert Westervelt. During his
postdoc, he worked at Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies. He joined the staff of the U.W.
Madison in fall of 1999.
His Packard Fellowship will allow him to continue
an ambitious program in nanoscale science and
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