Background
McKay, Susan Richards was born on March 20, 1953 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Donald Kirkland and Jean Ellen (Andrews) Richards.
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Susan Richards McKay
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Susan Richards McKay, American Physicist. Achievements include co-discovery of chaotic rescaling behavior of spin glasses by solving exactly frustrated Ising models; co-developmentand application of methods to study systems with random distbribution of interactions. International Business Machines Corporation predoctoral fellow, 1982-1983; American Association of University Women fellow, 1983-1984; Josephine de Karman fellow, 1983.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1975; Master of Science in Physics, U. Maine, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.
Career
Engineer, Gillette Advanced Technology Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1977; research associate, Physics Department, U. Maine, Orono, 1979-1980; assistant professor, Physics Department, U. Maine, Orono, since 1986.
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Membership
Member American Physical Society (executive county New England section 1988-1990), Materials Research Society, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.
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Children: Elizabeth Andrews McKay, Tracy Jean McKay.
