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Thomas Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum in 2010
8th President of the California Institute of Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2014
Preceded byJean-Lou Chameau
Personal details
Born
Thomas Felix Rosenbaum

(1955-02-20) February 20, 1955 (age 69)
SpouseKatherine Faber
EducationHarvard University (BS)
Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBell Laboratories
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
University of Chicago
California Institute of Technology
ThesisCoulomb Interactions and Localization in a Disordered System (1982)
Doctoral advisorGordon Thomas
Doctoral studentsDeborah S. Jin

Thomas Felix Rosenbaum (born February 20, 1955) is an American condensed matter physicist, professor of physics, and the current president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] Previously, Rosenbaum served as a faculty member and Provost of the University of Chicago. He has also served as the vice president for research at Argonne National Laboratory.[2][3]

As president of Caltech, Rosenbaum has advanced the institution's commitment to scientific research and education through the initiation of numerous innovative programs and institutes.[4] His contributions range from boosting diversity in STEM through fellowships and research funding opportunities, to establishing a number of initiatives through the largest campaigns in Caltech's history.[5]

Early life and education

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Rosenbaum grew up in Queens, New York City, where he spent much of his time playing basketball and frequenting theater and jazz productions.[6][7] He is of German-Jewish descent, with both sets of his grandparents having left Germany after World War II.[8] During the height of the Cold War, Rosenbaum was inspired by the Apollo program and the Moon landings to pursue physics as a means to solve the world's problems. He attended Forest Hills High School in Queens, and was a finalist in the 1973 Westinghouse Science Talent Search.[9][10] He received his bachelor's degree in physics with honors from Harvard University in 1977. He then went on to work with Professor Gordon A. Thomas at Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1982.[11]

Career

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Rosenbaum conducted research at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, before he joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1983. From January 2007, Rosenbaum served as the provost of the University of Chicago. In addition to his responsibilities for academic and research programs across the University, Rosenbaum served and continues to serve on the board of governors for Argonne National Laboratory.[12] He directed the university's Materials Research Laboratory from 1991 to 1994, the university's James Franck Institute, an interdisciplinary research unit, from 1995 to 2001, and served as vice president for research and for Argonne National Laboratory from 2002 to 2006. He is a member of the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Santa Fe Institute Science Board, a trustee of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), and a trustee of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Rosenbaum was announced as the eighth president of The California Institute of Technology on the morning of October 24, 2013 and took office at Caltech on or about July 1, 2014. Rosenbaum was formally inaugurated into the office on October 24, 2014.[citation needed]

Research

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Rosenbaum is an expert on the quantum mechanical nature of materials—the physics of electronic, magnetic, and optical materials at the atomic level—that are best observed at temperatures near absolute zero. Rosenbaum recognized early the significance and ubiquity of quantum phase transitions—from metal–insulator transitions[13] to magnetism[14] to exotic superconductivity—and his work is recognized as putting quantum transitions on as solid a footing as that long available for classical transitions. He has both exploited and advanced methods in experimental low temperature physics, developing new techniques (hydrostatic pressure, stress, magnetometry, calorimetry) for high-resolution studies at milliKelvin temperatures, complementing laboratory dilution refrigerator approaches with synchrotron x-ray measurements in diamond anvil cells at cryogenic temperatures.[15][16] He established the nature of the metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors and correlated materials,[17] and demonstrated macroscopic anisotropy of non-s-wave superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds.[18] Rosenbaum’s experiments on magnets involve controllable tuning of quantum fluctuations in both ordered and disordered systems.[19][20] He is interested in the macroscopic manifestations of quantum mechanics[21] and harnessing disorder to craft a material’s electrical, magnetic, and optical response.[22]

Initiatives

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Rosenbaum delivering an address at Caltech in 2017

In Rosenbaum's tenure as president of Caltech, more new initiatives were implemented at the institute than under any previous presidential administration.[6] Under Rosenbaum's leadership, Caltech launched the Resnick Sustainability Institute, the Bioscience Initiative, the Chen Neuroscience Institute, the Rothenberg Innovation Initiative, and the Merkin Translational Institute, among others.[23] More recently, Rosenbaum launched the Hurt Scholars Program and the Initiative for Caltech's Students, reinforcing academic excellence and student development.[24][25] He also spurred transformational work in seismology at Caltech and advanced research initiatives at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).[6]

Alongside his wife, materials scientist Katherine Faber, Rosenbaum has been instrumental in establishing numerous graduate fellowships and research funding opportunities. Among their most notable contributions is the $100,000 graduate research fellowship they initiated at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering in 2014.[26] This fellowship, designed to enhance the representation of women in STEM fields, offers summer research support to graduate students and diversity in the sciences.

Rosenbaum and Faber also established the Guy Rindone Graduate Research Fund which aims to facilitate graduate students' selection of research topics and contributing to the breadth of a student's educational journey.[27] Their philanthropic work continued with their significant contribution to the Gordon and Betty Moore Graduate Fellowship Match at Caltech in 2017.[28] Following this, they initiated the Rosenbaum-Faber Family Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship underscores Rosenbaum's dedication to academic freedom, providing graduate students the flexibility to potentially adjust their research paths based on unforeseen results.

Personal life

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Rosenbaum is married to materials scientist and expert in ceramic engineering and mechanical behavior, Katherine T. Faber. Together, they have two sons, Daniel and Michael. Rosenbaum is of Jewish heritage.[29]

Honors

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His honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the William McMillan Award for "outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics". Rosenbaum is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[30]

References

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  1. ^ "Thomas Felix Rosenbaum". Los Angeles Business Journal. 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  2. ^ "About President Rosenbaum | Caltech". The California Institute of Technology.
  3. ^ "About President Rosenbaum". Office of the President. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  4. ^ "Caltech Campaign Raises $3.4 Billion – Pasadena Now". www.pasadenanow.com. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  5. ^ Nietzel, Michael T. "CalTech's Capital Campaign Raises A Record $3.4 Billion". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  6. ^ a b c "Episode 7 Transcript: A Formula for Success". The Lonely Idea Podcast. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  7. ^ "Q&A with Dr. Rosenbaum". Caltech Magazine. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  8. ^ "Inaugural Address". Office of the President.
  9. ^ "New York Youths Win in Science". The New York Times. March 20, 1973. p. 76.
  10. ^ Ajmera, Maya. "Conversations with Maya: Thomas Rosenbaum". Science News. Society for Science & the Public. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  11. ^ Rosenbaum, Thomas F. (1982). Coulomb Interactions And Localization In A Disordered System (Ph.D.). Princeton University. OCLC 79619652 – via ProQuest.
  12. ^ UChicago Argonne, LLC. "Thomas F. Rosenbaum". uchicagoargonnellc.org. Archived from the original on 27 March 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  13. ^ Rosenbaum, T.; Milligan, R.; Paalanen, M.; Thomas, G.; Bhatt, R.; Lin, W. (1983). "Metal-insulator transition in a doped semiconductor" (PDF). Physical Review B. 27 (12): 7509–7523. Bibcode:1983PhRvB..27.7509R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.27.7509. ISSN 0163-1829.
  14. ^ Wu, Wenhao; Ellman, B.; Rosenbaum, T.; Aeppli, G.; Reich, D. (1991). "From classical to quantum glass". Physical Review Letters. 67 (15): 2076–2079. Bibcode:1991PhRvL..67.2076W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.2076. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10044329.
  15. ^ Jaramillo, R.; Feng, Yejun; Lang, J.C.; Islam, Z.; Srajer, G.; Littlewood, P. B.; McWhan, D. B.; Rosenbaum, T. F. (2009). "Breakdown of the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer ground state at a quantum phase transition". Nature. 459 (7245): 405–409. Bibcode:2009Natur.459..405J. doi:10.1038/nature08008. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 19458718. S2CID 1692358.
  16. ^ Feng, Y.; Wang, J.; Jaramillo, R.; van Wezel, J.; Haravifard, S.; Srajer, G.; Liu, Y.; Xu, Z.- A.; Littlewood, P. B.; Rosenbaum, T. F. (2012). "Order parameter fluctuations at a buried quantum critical point". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (19): 7224–7229. arXiv:1109.0260. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.7224F. doi:10.1073/pnas.1202434109. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3358829. PMID 22529348.
  17. ^ Husmann, A.; Yao, X.; Jin, D. S.; Zastavker, Y. V.; Rosenbaum, T. F.; Honig, J. M. (1996). "Dynamical Signature of the Mott-Hubbard Transition in Ni(S,Se)2". Science. 274 (5294): 1874–1876. Bibcode:1996Sci...274.1874H. doi:10.1126/science.274.5294.1874. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 8943193. S2CID 45909959.
  18. ^ Shivaram, B.; Jeong, Y.; Rosenbaum, T.; Hinks, D. (1986). "Anisotropy of Transverse Sound in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor UPt_{3}" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. 56 (10): 1078–1081. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56.1078S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1078. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10032562.
  19. ^ Brooke, J. (1999). "Quantum Annealing of a Disordered Magnet". Science. 284 (5415): 779–781. arXiv:cond-mat/0105238. Bibcode:1999Sci...284..779B. doi:10.1126/science.284.5415.779. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 10221904. S2CID 37564720.
  20. ^ Brooke, J.; Rosenbaum, T. F.; Aeppli, G. (2001). "Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls". Nature. 413 (6856): 610–613. arXiv:cond-mat/0202361. Bibcode:2001Natur.413..610B. doi:10.1038/35098037. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11595942. S2CID 4404553.
  21. ^ Ghosh, S.; Rosenbaum, T. F.; Aeppli, G.; Coppersmith, S. N. (2003). "Entangled quantum state of magnetic dipoles". Nature. 425 (6953): 48–51. arXiv:cond-mat/0402456. Bibcode:2003Natur.425...48G. doi:10.1038/nature01888. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 12955135. S2CID 4391669.
  22. ^ Silevitch, D. M.; Aeppli, G.; Rosenbaum, T. F. (2010). "Switchable hardening of a ferromagnet at fixed temperature". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (7): 2797–2800. arXiv:1003.0369. Bibcode:2010PNAS..107.2797S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910575107. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2840359. PMID 20133728.
  23. ^ "How the $3.4 Billion Break Through Campaign Impacted Caltech". Caltech Magazine. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  24. ^ "New Professorships Support Early-Career Researchers". California Institute of Technology. 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  25. ^ "About the Initiative - initiativeforstudents.caltech.edu". initiativeforstudents.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  26. ^ "Rosenbaum-Faber gift to support women in STEM fields through Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | The University of Chicago". pme.uchicago.edu. 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  27. ^ "Couple creates graduate research fund in honor of former Penn State professor | Penn State University". www.psu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  28. ^ "home - initiativeforstudents.caltech.edu". initiativeforstudents.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  29. ^ "Physics and Faith". Sinai and Synapses. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  30. ^ "Thomas F. Rosenbaum | Office of the Provost". provost.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-12.

Notes

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Research and Publications of Thomas F. Rosenbaum: Home | Chicago Quantum Exchange

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