Thomas Timusk

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Tom Timusk (born 1933) is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. He is a retired member of the Condensed Matter research team at McMaster.^[1] He was an immigrant from Estonia displaced by Second World War. He settled in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

Research[]

He started his research in spectroscopy and he is considered an experimental physicist. His original lab at McMaster was known as the Solid State Lab in the basement of the Senior Sciences Building. Recently he has had two labs and continues to complete active funded research. Timusk also researches superconductivity theory.

Education[]

Timusk graduated with a BA in physics from the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD at Cornell University where his research was funded by a US Navy grant. He did his post-doctorate work in Frankfurt, Germany and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1965, he accepted a position at McMaster University where he has since been a professor. ^[2]

Associations[]

Professor Timusk is an active member of both the Canadian Association of Physicists and American Physics Society. He was also inducted in the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.^[3]

Awards[]

• 2002 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids (co-winner)
• 2000 Canadian Association of Physicists' ^[4]

Papers[]

• T. Timusk & B. Statt (1999). "The pseudogap in high-temperature superconductors: an experimental survey". Reports on Progress in Physics. 62 (1): 61–122. arXiv:cond-mat/9905219. Bibcode:1999RPPh...62...61T. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/62/1/002.
• T. Timusk (1999). "Infrared properties of exotic superconductors". Physica C. 317–318 (1–2): 18–29. arXiv:cond-mat/9903254. Bibcode:1999PhyC..317...18T. doi:10.1016/S0921-4534(99)00042-8.
• T. Timusk & D.B. Tanner. "Infrared Properties of High temperature Superconductors". In D.M. Ginsberg (ed.). Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors. World Scientific.

References[]

• J. Hwang; T. Timusk; J.P. Carbotte (2007). "Scanning-tunnelling spectra of cuprates". Nature. 446 (7132): E3-4. Bibcode:2007Natur.446....3H. doi:10.1038/nature05709. PMID 17344807.
• "Closing in on a theory of superconductivity". Physics World. 2004. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-03-27.