Marjatta Lyyra

A. Marjatta Lyyra is a Finnish and American physicist whose research has involved the development of triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its applications in molecular quantum optics,[1] including electromagnetically induced transparency.[2] She is a professor of physics at Temple University.[1]

Early life, education, and career

Lyyra grew up in Finland in a family with five brothers. Deterred by allergy from a childhood interest in veterinary science, she turned to her second-favorite discipline, physics.[2] She became a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1971 and a master's degree in 1973.[1]

She completed her Ph.D. at Stockholm University in Sweden in 1979,[1] also earning a license for deep-sea sailing in her time in Sweden.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Molecular spectroscopy, was supervised by Philip Bunker.[3]

She worked as a research scientist at the University of Iowa,[4] where she helped pioneer triple-resonance spectroscopy with William Stwalley and Paul Kleiber,[1] before joining the Temple University faculty.[4]

Recognition

Lyyra was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2005, after a nomination from the APS Division of Laser Science, "for the development of multi-resonance laser spectroscopic technique for facilitating large inter-nuclear distance molecular excitation with state selectivity and for probing coherence effects in molecular systems".[5] In 2019, Optica named her as a fellow, "for significant contributions and leadership in experimental research in all-optical triple resonance spectroscopy and its application to frequency domain control of quantum state singlet/triplet character and all-optical spin switching".[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "A. Marjatta Lyyra", Directory, Temple University College of Science and Technology, retrieved 2025-11-01
  2. ^ a b c "Raise Your Hand: Questions for a Temple professor", Temple Now, Temple University, 22 October 2014, retrieved 2025-11-01
  3. ^ Marjatta Lyyra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b "Appendix D: Committee Biographical Information", Manipulating Quantum Systems: An Assessment of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in the United States, The National Academies Press, 2020, doi:10.17226/25613, ISBN 978-0-309-49951-4
  5. ^ "Fellows nominated in 2005 by the Division of Laser Science", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-11-01
  6. ^ 2019 Fellows, Optica, retrieved 2025-11-01
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