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| Born | January 26, 1939 (age 79) |
| Nationality | Ireland, U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin, Ireland Cambridge University, U.K. |
| Awards | Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1998) John Bardeen Prize (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics |
| Institutions | Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill N.J., U.S.A. ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
T(homas) Maurice Rice is an Irish-American theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter physics.
He was born in Dundalk, Ireland on Jan. 26 1939, the younger brother of the renowned structural engineer, Peter Rice. Like his brother he studied at the local Christian Brothers school. Subsequently he studied physics as an undergraduate at University College Dublin and as a graduate student with Volker Heine at the University of Cambridge. In 1964 he moved to the USA and spent two years as a postdoc with Walter Kohn at the University of California at San Diego. Then he joined the technical staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill NJ in 1966, where he stayed apart from several sabbaticals, until 1981, when he joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich Switzerland. He and his Swiss wife, Helen, moved with their family of a son and two daughters from New Jersey to Zurich. Rice retired from teaching in 2004 and currently is an Emeritus Professor at ETH. [1] [2]
Rice graduated at a time when the field of condensed matter physics expanded from the study of just simple metals and semiconductors to cover a broad range of compound materials. This led him to collaborate with both theorist and experimentalist colleagues to interpret novel electronic properties of these materials. Bell Labs in the nineteen sixties and seventies provided the ideal environment for such collaborations. Rice’s contributions covered a range of topics and materials, e.g. metal-insulators transitions in transition metal oxides, electron-hole liquids in optically pumped semiconductors and charge and spin density waves.
In the early-nineteen eighties Rice moved to ETH, a few years before Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller at the nearby IBM laboratories, made their spectacular discovery of high temperature superconductivity in layered cuprate compounds. Rice quickly switched his research to the challenges and puzzles posed by these novel and exceptional superconductors. Cuprates rapidly became a major topic in condensed matter physics, as a large range of spectacular properties in addition to high temperature superconductivity were discovered. Rice and his collaborators concentrated on developing a consistent microscopic interpretation of the various novel experimental results. The biggest challenge is the microscopic description of the mysterious pseudogap phase, which appears in a range of intermediate hole doping. Together with a series of talented graduate students and postdocs, he has focused on the role of enhanced Umklapp scattering in a nearly half-filled band as the key to the unexpected features. The physics of cuprates, even after three decades of research, remains very active with many open and controversial questions.
Honors
- D.Sc (h.c.) National University of Ireland (1989) [3]
- Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy (1988) [4]
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (1993) [5]
- Fellow, The Royal Society, UK (2002) [6]
- Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1998) [7]
- John Bardeen Prize for Superconductivity Theory (2000) [8]
Selected Papers
- Application of Gutzwiller Variational Method to the Metal-Insulator Transition; W.F. Brinkman and T.M. Rice, Phys. Rev. B 2, 4302 (1970).
- Electron-Hole Liquids in Semiconductors; W.F. Brinkman, and T.M. Rice, Phys. Rev. B 7, 1508 (1973).
- Effective Hamiltonian for the Superconducting Cu-oxides; F.C. Zhang and T.M. Rice, Phys. Rev. B 37, 3759 (1988).
- Breakdown of the Landau-Fermi liquid in two dimensions due to Umklapp Scattering, C. Honerkamp, M. Salmhofer, N. Furukawa and T.M.Rice; Phys.Rev.B63, 035109 (2001)
- A Phenomenological Theory of the Anomalous Pseudogap Phase in Underdoped Cuprates, T.M. Rice, K.-Y. Yang and F. C. Zhang; Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 016502 (2012)
References
- ^ Emeritus Professors Department of Physics ETH Zurich
- ^ Prof. T.M. Rice D PHYS ETH Zurich
- ^ NUI - Honorary Degrees Awarded
- ^ Members of Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Members of the National Academy of Sciences (Applied Physical Sciences) USA
- ^ Fellows of the Royal Society UK
- ^ EPS Europhysics Prize
- ^ John Bardeen Prize
T. Maurice Rice
T. Maurice Rice
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