Education
Art Hebard attended The Hotchkiss School and graduated with a Bachelor in Physics from Yale University in 1962. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1971.
author Distinguished Professor
Art Hebard attended The Hotchkiss School and graduated with a Bachelor in Physics from Yale University in 1962. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1971.
He is particularly noted for leading the discovery of superconductivity in Buckminsterfullerene in 1991. He moved to the University of Florida as a Professor in 1996, and in 2007 was given the title of Distinguished Professor. He is the author of more than 250 refereed scientific publications and 90 invited presentations, and has been issued 10 patents.
His research interests include thin-film physics, graphene, fullerenes and fullerene derived compounds, superconductivity, dilute magnetic semiconductors, magnetism in thin films and at thin film interfaces, interface capacitance, magnetocapacitance of complex oxides and semiconductors.
Notable recent work has been on the use of graphene for solar cells.
After a spell as a Research Associate at Stanford, he became a member of the Technical Staff at American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Telephone Laboratories.