Myriam Sarachik

Myriam Sarachik Paula ( born August 8, 1933, Antwerp) is an American physicist who deals with experimental solid state physics.

Sarachik went to Antwerp and Havana in Cuba to school and attended the Bronx High School of Science. In 1954, she received her bachelor's degree in physics at Barnard College, spent a year at the IBM Watson Laboratories of Columbia University and received a Master's degree in 1957 at Columbia University, where she was in 1960 a doctorate. She then worked at the IBM Watson Laboratories again and taught the same evening at the City College of New York before she went to Bell Laboratories in 1962. In 1964, she was Assistant Professor, in 1967 Associate Professor and in 1971 Professor at the City College of New York CUNY. Since 1995 she has been there Distinguished Professor.

Her doctoral thesis was the depth of penetration of magnetic fields in thin superconducting films of lead and tin and from the determination of the energy gap in the excitation spectrum of the superconductor. At Bell Laboratories brought them out of important experiments to verify the theory of the Kondo effect.

Next, she dealt with doped semiconductors near the metal-insulator transition, strongly correlated electron systems in two dimensions and macroscopic magnetic quantum tunneling in spin systems.

In 2005 she was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society (APS ), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. In 2006 she was made an honorary Doctor of Amherst College. In 1995 she received the Award for Excellence in Science New York Mayor. In 2003, she was president of the APS. In 2004 she was awarded the UNESCO Prize L'Oréal. It is involved in both the APS and the New York Academy of Sciences for Human Rights and the Council of the Committee of Concerned Scientists.

Myriam Sarachik is since 1954 with Philip E. Sarachik ( born 1931, professor of electrical engineering at New York University), married, with whom she has a daughter.