Tony Frederick Heinz (born 30 April 1956 in Palo Alto) is an American physicist.[1]

Biography

Heinz studied at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics.[2] From 1983 to 1995 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. He was a professor at Columbia University and is now a professor at Stanford University. He served as president of The Optical Society in 2021.[3]

Research

His research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy (femtosecond pulses) and thus investigates dynamics at surfaces. His group investigates electronic and optical properties of a few atoms of thin two-dimensional systems (such as graphene or ultrathin crystals of transition-metal di-chalcogen compounds). His significant contributions to the condensed matter and materials physics includes discovery of room temperature excitons in 1D and 2D materials.[4]

Heinz is one of the most cited scientists. Since 2019, the media group Clarivate counts him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize (Clarivate Citation Laureates).[5]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ American Men and Women of Science. Thomson Gale. 2004.
  2. ^ Heinz, Tony (1982). Nonlinear optics of surfaces and absorbates (Thesis). OCLC 729538318. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  3. ^ a b "Biographies: Tony F. Heinz". The Optical Society.
  4. ^ Wang, Gang; Chernikov, Alexey; Glazov, Mikhail M.; Heinz, Tony F.; Marie, Xavier; Amand, Thierry; Urbaszek, Bernhard (2018-04-04). "Colloquium : Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides". Reviews of Modern Physics. 90 (2). arXiv:1707.05863. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.90.021001. ISSN 0034-6861.
  5. ^ "The 2019 Clarivate Citation Laureates" (PDF). Clarivate Analytics. We recognize Heinz for contributions to understanding classes of nanoscale materials including carbon nanotubes, graphene, and two-dimensional semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide.
  6. ^ "William F. Meggers Award". The Optical Society.
  7. ^ "Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics". springer.com. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
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