Peter Johnson

Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY

Dr. Johnson is an internationally recognized leader in surface science and photoelectron spectroscopy, a process in which an electron absorbs energy from light and is ejected from the material under study, thus revealing information about its properties. Johnson has focused on materials in which electrons are confined to two dimensions, rather than the usual three dimensions. Two-dimensional materials include the surfaces of metals, where catalytic reactions take place; magnetic multilayers, consisting of alternating layers of thin films of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials; and high-temperature superconductors.

A recipient of the American Physical Society's Oliver E. Buckley Prize in 2011 and Brookhaven Lab's Science and Technology Award in 2001, Dr. Johnson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom.