Background
Birgeneau, Robert Joseph was born on March 25, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Peter Duffus and Isobel Theresa Birgeneau. came to the United States 1963.
Birgeneau, Robert Joseph was born on March 25, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Peter Duffus and Isobel Theresa Birgeneau. came to the United States 1963.
Bachelor of Science, University Toronto, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1966.
Visiting teacher, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina., summer 1965;
instructor department engineering and applied science, Yale University, New Haven, 1966-1967;
National Research Council Canada postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford, England, 1967-1968;
member technical staff, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1968-1974;
research head scattering and low energy physics department, Bell Labs, 1975;
guest senior physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, since 1968;
visiting scientist, Riso, Roskilde, Denmark, 1971, 79;
professor physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, since 1975;
Cecil and Ida Green professor physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1982;
associate director Research Laboratory for Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983-1986;
head condensed matter atomic and plasma physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987-1988;
head department physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988-1991;
dean science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1991. Consultant Bell laboratories, 1977-1980, International Business Machines Corporation Research laboratories, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1980-1983, Sandia laboratories, 1985-1992. Member steering committee Panel on Neutron Scattering, NAS, 1977, member core committee, major materials facilities committee,1984.
Co-chairman Gordon Conference on Quantum Solids and Fluids, 1979, Gordon Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, 1986. Member policy and advisory board Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, 1980-1984, chairman, 1983-1984. Mem.rev. panel on neutron scattering Department Energy, 1980, 82, member basic energy science advising committee, 1991-1995.
Member materials research advising committee National Science Foundation, 1989-1990. Member of advisory county Nippon Electric Corporation, since 1996. Chairman Department of Energy panel on research reactorupgrades, 1996, Department of Energy panel on synchrotron sources, 1997.
Trustee Association Universities, Inc., 1990-1997, Museum Science, Boston, since 1992, Argonne National Laboratory, since 1992, Brookhaven Science Associations, since 1998. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (executive county 1992-1994), American Physical Society, American Academy Arts Science.
Married Mary Catherine Ware, June 20, 1964. Children— Michael, Catherine, Patricia, Michelle.