Thomas Timusk Explained

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, and colleague of Unc.^[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' Brockhouse Medal^[4]

Papers

• T. Timusk . B. Statt . amp . 1999 . The pseudogap in high-temperature superconductors: an experimental survey . Reports on Progress in Physics . 62 . 1 . 61–122 . 10.1088/0034-4885/62/1/002. cond-mat/9905219 . 1999RPPh...62...61T . 250893405 .
• T. Timusk . 1999 . Infrared properties of exotic superconductors . Physica C . 317–318 . 1–2 . 18–29 . 10.1016/S0921-4534(99)00042-8. cond-mat/9903254 . 1999PhyC..317...18T . 119100405 .
• Book: T. Timusk . D.B. Tanner . amp . Infrared Properties of High temperature Superconductors . Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors . D.M. Ginsberg . World Scientific.

References

1. Web site: Condensed Matter Experiment at McMaster University . . 2004 . 2009-03-27.
2. Web site: MAC Physics: Dr. T. Timusk . . 2009-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070810183131/http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/timusk/ . 2007-08-10 . dead .
3. Web site: Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada honoured . . 2002 . 2009-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20021115103716/http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=1387 . 2002-11-15 . dead .
4. Web site: Profile for Thomas Timusk . 2004 . 2009-03-27.

• J. Hwang . T. Timusk . J.P. Carbotte . Scanning-tunnelling spectra of cuprates . Nature . 446 . 7132. E3-4 . 2007 . 10.1038/nature05709 . 17344807. 2007Natur.446....3H . 4431112 .
• Web site: Closing in on a theory of superconductivity . . 2004 . 2009-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090107112513/http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19051 . 2009-01-07 . dead .