Frances Hellman

Frances Hellman is a physicist at University of California, Berkeley who studies the thermodynamic properties of novel solid materials, especially thin film semiconducting, superconducting, and magnetic materials. Hellman obtained her Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University in 1985, then served as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories. Before coming to Berkeley, she was a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego from 1987 to 2004. Hellman is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

References

*cite journal |title=The Joy of Physics |author=Eric Niiler |journal=UCSD Perspectives |issue=Fall 1999 |url=http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/hellman/hellmanpage/HellmanArticle.pdf
*cite web |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Frances%20Hellman&year=2006 |title=Prize Recipient |publisher=American Physical Society

External links

* [http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/hellman/hellmanpage/hellman.html Frances Hellman] at University of California, Berkeley