Moses H. W. Chan

Moses Hung-Wai Chan
Residence	United States
Fields	condensed matter physics, low temperature physics, supersolid
Institutions	Penn State University
Alma mater	Bridgewater College Cornell University
Known for	low temperature physics, discovery of supersolid
Notable awards	Fritz London Memorial prize (1996)

Moses Hung-Wai Chan (陳鴻渭) is a physics professor at Penn State University, where he holds the rank of Evan Pugh Professor. He is an alumnus of Bridgewater College and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1974. He has been at professor at Penn State's University Park Campus since 1979.

Through the years, professor Chan's work has spanned many diverse topics.^[1] For his numerous contributions to low temperature physics, in 1996 he shared the prestigious Fritz London Memorial prize with Carl Wieman and Eric A. Cornell.^[2] He was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000.

Among his most nobable recent contributions is the discovery of the new supersolid quantum state of matter, which is directly complementary to the superfluid, and BEC states.^[3][4] Other significant discoveries include the experimental observation of Critical Casimir effect^[5] and the experimental confirmation of 2D Ising model.^[6]

References

1. ^ Complete list of publications.
2. ^ Fritz London Memorial Prize
3. ^ E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan (2004). "Probable Observation of a Supersolid Helium Phase". Nature 427 (6971): 225–227. Bibcode 2004Natur.427..225K. doi:10.1038/nature02220. PMID 14724632. 
4. ^ Nature story on a supersolid experiment
5. ^ R. Garcia and M. H. W. Chan, “Critical Fluctuation-Induced Thinning of 4He Films near the Superfluid Transition,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1187 (1999).
6. ^ H. K. Kim and M. H. W. Chan, "An Experimental Determination of a Two-Dmensional Liquid-Vapor Critical Point Exponent," Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 170 – 173 (1984)

External links

• His faculty page at Penn State University

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