Myriam Sarachik
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Distinguished Professor Emerita Myriam P. Sarachik has published extensively in professional journals on her work in superconductivity, disordered metallic alloys, metal-insulator transitions in doped semiconductors, hopping transport in solids, properties of strongly interacting electrons in two dimensions, and spin dynamics in molecular magnets.
Dr. Sarachik has served the scientific community as an advisor to various government agencies (NSF, DoE, for example), and universities (Cal Tech, University of Groeningen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and many others) and for scientific organizations (APS, AIP, AAAS). She has been actively engaged in defending the human rights of scientists and in promoting the participation of women in physics. Sarachik served as President of the American Physical Society in 2003.
Professor Sarachik is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received the 1995 New York City Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, a 2004 Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York, the 2005 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics, and was named the for women in science L’Oreal/UNESCO Laureate for North America in 2005. She was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa by Amherst College in 2006. In 2020, Professor Sarachik was awarded the 2020 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research, the Institute of Physics (IOP) President’s Medal, and the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
Having served on the CCNY/CUNY faculty since 1964, Myriam Sarachik retired in August of 2018.
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