Thomas Timusk
Tom Timusk is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. He is a retired member of the Condensed Matter research team at McMaster.[1] He was an immigrant from Estonia displaced by Second World War. He settled in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Research
He started his research in spectroscopy and he is considered an experimental physicist. His original lab at McMaster was known as the Solid State Lab in the basement of the Senior Sciences Building. Recently he has had two labs and continues to complete active funded research. Timusk also researches superconductivity theory.
Education
Timusk graduated with a BA in physics from the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD at Cornell University where his research was funded by a US Navy grant. He did his post-doctorate work in Frankfurt, Germany and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1965, he accepted a position at McMaster University where he has since been a professor. [2]
Associations
Professor Timusk is an active member of both the Canadian Association of Physicists and American Physics Society. He was also inducted in the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.[3]
Awards
- 2002 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids (co-winner)
- 2000 Canadian Association of Physicists' Brockhouse Medal[4]
Papers
- T. Timusk & B. Statt (1999). "The pseudogap in high-temperature superconductors: an experimental survey". Reports on Progress in Physics. 62 (1): 61–122. arXiv:cond-mat/9905219
. Bibcode:1999RPPh...62...61T. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/62/1/002. - T. Timusk (1999). "Infrared properties of exotic superconductors". Physica C. 317–318 (1-2): 18–29. arXiv:cond-mat/9903254. Bibcode:1999PhyC..317...18T. doi:10.1016/S0921-4534(99)00042-8.
- T. Timusk & D.B. Tanner. "Infrared Properties of High temperature Superconductors". In D.M. Ginsberg. Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors. World Scientific.
References
- ↑ "Condensed Matter Experiment at McMaster University". McMaster University. 2004. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
- ↑ "MAC Physics: Dr. T. Timusk". McMaster University. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
- ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada honoured". McMaster University. 2002. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
- ↑ "Profile for Thomas Timusk". 2004. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
- J. Hwang; T. Timusk; J.P. Carbotte (2007). "Scanning-tunnelling spectra of cuprates". Nature. 446 (7132): E3–E4. Bibcode:2007Natur.446....3H. doi:10.1038/nature05709. PMID 17344807.
- "Closing in on a theory of superconductivity". Physics World. 2004. Retrieved 2009-03-27.