Moses H. W. Chan
Moses H. W. Chan 陳鴻渭 | |
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Moses Chan Hung-Wai | |
| Born | Moses Chan Hung-Wai November 23, 1946 Xi'an, China |
| Alma mater | Bridgewater College(BSC), Cornell University(Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Research in Low temperature physics, on solid 4He. |
| Awards | Fritz London Memorial Prize(1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics, Low temperature physics |
| Institutions | Penn State University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Reppy |
Moses Chan Hung-Wai (Chinese: 陳鴻渭; pinyin: Chén Hóngwèi) is a Chinese-American physicist who is Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He is an alumnus of Bridgewater College and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1974 and was a postdoctoral associate at Duke University. He has been a professor at Penn State's University Park Campus since 1979.
Through the years, Chan's work has spanned many diverse topics.[1] For his numerous contributions to low-temperature physics, in 1996 he shared the prestigious Fritz London Memorial prize with Carl Wieman and Eric A. Cornell.[2] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[3]
Chan is known for the experimental discovery of evidence for a new supersolid quantum state of matter,[4][5] predicted theoretically in 1969 by Alexander Andreev and Ilya Liftshitz, and its subsequent refutation.[6] Other significant discoveries include the experimental observation of Critical Casimir effect[7] and the experimental confirmation of 2D Ising model.[8]
Biography
Born in Xi'an in 1946, he moved to Hong Kong in his childhood and completed his primary and secondary education in Yuen Long District.[9] In 1967, Chan received his bachelor's degree from Bridgewater College in Virginia, USA. From 1969 to 1970, he taught at the University of Hong Kong. In 1974, he received his doctorate from Cornell University. From 1973 to 1976, he conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University. From 1976 to 1979, Chen Hongwei taught at the University of Toledo. In 1979, he joined Pennsylvania State University.[10]
Honors
He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 and the Fritz London Memorial Prize in 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.[10]
References
- ^ Complete list of publications. Archived 6 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fritz London Memorial Prize
- ^ List of active members by class, October 24, 2014
- ^ E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan (2004). "Probable Observation of a Supersolid Helium Phase". Nature. 427 (6971): 225–227. Bibcode:2004Natur.427..225K. doi:10.1038/nature02220. PMID 14724632. S2CID 3112651.
- ^ Nature story on a supersolid experiment
- ^ D. Y. Kim and M. H. W. Chan (2012). "Absence of Supersolidity in Solid Helium in Porous Vycor Glass". Physical Review Letters. 109 (15) 155301. arXiv:1207.7050. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.109o5301K. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.109.155301. PMID 23102323. S2CID 23590787.
- ^ R. Garcia and M. H. W. Chan (1999). "Critical Fluctuation-Induced Thinning of 4He Films near the Superfluid Transition". Physical Review Letters. 83 (6): 1187–1190. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.1187G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1187. S2CID 51372560.
- ^ H. K. Kim and M. H. W. Chan (1984). "An Experimental Determination of a Two-Dimensional Liquid-Vapor Critical Point Exponent". Physical Review Letters. 53 (2): 170–173. Bibcode:1984PhRvL..53..170K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.170.
- ^ "土產物理學家盼多撥資源發展科學". 星島日報. 1 July 2005. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Single-fluxon controlled Resistance Switching in a Nanowire". Colloquium. 上海交通大学物理与天文学院. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.