Goldman appointed Regents Professor

Allen Goldman

Allen Goldman, head of the School of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a Regents Professor by the University’s Board of Regents, which is the University’s highest faculty honor.

In a research career that spans more than 40 years at the University of Minnesota, he has made numerous pioneering contributions in the field of superconductivity, the state in which materials lose their electrical resistance and electrons can flow freely. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on superconductivity in thin films. He and his team have found ways to construct and study thin films of metals only a few atoms thick.

In the 1970’s, Goldman discovered the existence of gapless order-parameter collective modes, now known as Carlson-Goldman modes, in superconducting films. In the mid 1980’s, Goldman and his group developed a new means for preparing extremely thin quench-condensed superconducting films, and his subsequent research has led to a profound understanding of the onset of superconductivity at zero temperature.

Goldman is a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. In recognition of his research on superconducting thin films, he was awarded the Fritz London Memorial Prize in 2002, and he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Goldman is one of six Institute of Technology faculty members who currently holds the title of Regents Professor.

The Regents Professorship was established in 1965 by the Board of Regents to serve as the highest recognition for faculty who have made unique contributions to the quality of the University of Minnesota through exceptional accomplishments in teaching, research, scholarship or creative work, and contributions to the public good. More>>>