George C. Hadjipanayis

George C. Hadjipanayis
Alma materUniversity of Athens (B.Sc.), University of Manitoba (M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Known forNeodymium magnet
Scientific career
FieldsMagnetism, Metallurgy
InstitutionsUniversity of Delaware

George C. Hadjipanayis is a Greek-American physicist who is the Richard B. Murray Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of Delaware.[1]

Hadjipanayis completed his Bachelor of Science degree in physics at the University of Athens in 1969. He then moved to Canada to pursue further study in the subject, and obtained a Master of Science in 1974, followed by a doctorate in 1979, both from the University of Manitoba.[2] Hadjipanayis formerly taught at the University of Delaware[3]. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "f[or]" his innovative and applicable investigations and development of novel permanent magnets and magnetic nanoparticles.[4]

Together with Masato Sagawa, Hadjipanayis is credited with the discovery of the magnetically hard Nd2Fe14B compound, which forms the basis for all modern Neodymium magnets.[5]

References

  1. ^ "George C. Hadjipanayis | IEEE Magnetics Society". ieeemagnetics.org. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
  2. ^ "George C. Hadjipanayis: Science and Technology of Modern Permanent Magnet Materials". IEEE Magnetics. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ^ "George C. Hadjipanayis". University of Delaware. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. ^ "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ Hadjipanayis, G. C.; Hazelton, R. C.; Lawless, K. R. (1983-10-15). "New iron-rare-earth based permanent magnet materials". Applied Physics Letters. 43 (8): 797–799. doi:10.1063/1.94459. ISSN 0003-6951.