Malcolm Beasley
{{Short description|American physicist}}
Malcolm Roy Beasley (born January 4, 1940, in San Francisco) is an American physicist. He is professor emeritus of applied physics at Stanford University. He is known for his research related to superconductivity.
Early life and education
Beasley was born at Stanford hospital, moving to Hawaii during World War II with his parents, who were social scientists.{{cite news |last1=Manuel |first1=Diane |title=Malcolm Beasley new H&S dean |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/1998/october7/beasley107.html |work=Stanford Report |date=October 7, 1998}} He was a high school and college basketball player, earning All-Metropolitan honors at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland,{{cite news |title=1957 Schoolboy All-Star Teams |work=The Washington Post |date=March 3, 1957 |page=C3 |quote=Malcolm (Mac) Beasley, Montgomery Blair, Forward, All-Metropolitan First Team}} and playing for the Cornell Big Red in 1958-59.{{cite web |title=1958-59 Men's Basketball Roster |url=https://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?roster=985&path=mbball |website=Cornell University Athletics |accessdate=31 May 2019}}
At Cornell University, Beasley earned his bachelor's degree in engineering physics in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1967.{{cite web |title=Malcolm R. Beasley |url=https://www.aip.org/aip/governing-board/malcolm-r-beasley |website=American Institute of Physics |date=February 7, 2014}} His Ph.D. thesis Flux creep in hard superconductors{{cite web|author=Beasley, M. R.|title=Thesis/Dissertation: Flux creep in hard superconductors. Report No. 921|website=Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, osti.gov|url=https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4496390|date=January 1, 1968}} was supervised by Watt W. Webb.{{cite web|title=Malcolm Roy Beasley|website=Physics Tree|url=https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=168443}}
Academic career
Beasley joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1968 where he remained until accepting a position at Stanford in 1974.{{cite web|title=Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University: Candidate for Vice President|url=http://www.aps.org/about/governance/election/beasley.cfm|work=American Physical Society|accessdate=May 29, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713024337/http://aps.org/about/governance/election/beasley.cfm|archivedate=July 13, 2011}} He was recruited to Stanford by Theodore Geballe, and after Aharon Kapitulnik joined the applied physics department, the three Stanford superconductivity researchers became known as the "KGB Group."
In 1991, Beasley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=May 29, 2011}} He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.{{cite web|title=Beasley, Malcolm R.|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/1394540066?pg=vprof&mbr=1001687|work=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=May 29, 2011}}
In 1998, Beasley was named dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.
In 2002, Beasley served as chairman of the Jan Hendrik Schön commission, which determined that Schön fabricated much of his published research.{{cite news |last1=Chang |first1=Kenneth |title=Panel Says Bell Labs Scientist Faked Discoveries in Physics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/26/us/panel-says-bell-labs-scientist-faked-discoveries-in-physics.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 26, 2002}}
In 2011, Beasley was elected to the Presidential line of the American Physical Society, becoming APS President in 2014.{{cite news |title=Members Elect Beasley to the APS Presidential Line |url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201108/beasley.cfm |work=APS News |issue=August/September 2011 |publisher=American Physical Society}}
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External links
- [http://www.stanford.edu/group/kgb/ Stanford University Research Group]
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Category:20th-century American physicists
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