Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for superconductivity experiments

J.C. Séamus Davis
Cornell University

Citation:
“For pushing the limits of spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy at low temperatures and applying it to pioneering studies of the cuprate high temperature superconductors”

Séamus Davis received his B.Sc. from University College Cork, Ireland in 1983 and Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley in 1989. He was Professor of Physics at the University of California - Berkeley and a Faculty Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California between 1993 and 2003. He was appointed Professor of Physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 2003 and a Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, New York in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed as SUPA Distinguished Research Professor at St. Andrews University, Scotland and in 2008 the J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University. During 2008-2009 he will be a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA. In 2009 he was named Director of the Department of Energy EFRC – Center for Emergent Superconductivity.

Prof. Davis’ active research interests include the macroscopic quantum physics of superconductors superfluids and supersolids, complex electronic matter in transition metal oxides and heavy fermion systems.

Prof. Davis has been the recipient of the NSF National Young Investigator Award (1994), the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (1994), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1996), the Miller Research Professorship at UC Berkeley (1997), the Outstanding Performance Award of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (2001) and the Fritz London Memorial Prize (2005). He was the Pagels Lecturer at the Aspen Center for Physics (2008), the Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University (2008) and the Einstein Lecturer at the Weizmann Institute, Israel (2009).

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the American Physical Society.

Selection Committee Chair: P. H. Kes