Philip H. Bucksbaum

Biography

Abstract

Philip Bucksbaum researches ultrafast, short wavelength, and high field laser-matter interactions. His institutional affiliations include Bell Laboratories, University of Michigan, and Stanford University.

Important Dates

January 14, 1953Birth, Grinnell (Iowa).

1975Obtained AB in Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.).

1978Obtained MA in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).

1980Obtained PhD in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).

1980 – 1981Research Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

1980 – 1984Research Fellow (1980-1982) and Member, Technical Staff, Physics Research Division (1982-1984), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1984 – 1990Member, Technical Staff, Physics Research Division, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1989 – 1990Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University.

1990Fellow, American Physical Society.

1990 – 2006Professor Physics (1990-1998); Otto Laporte Collegiate Professor of Physics (1998-2005); and Peter Franken Distinguished University Professor of Physics (2005-2006), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Mich.).

1995Fellow, Optical Society of America.

2004Member, National Academy of Sciences.

2004 – 2005Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Physics and Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).

2005 – presentDirector, Ultrafast Science Center, Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).

2006 – presentProfessor of Physics and Applied Physics (2006-2009) and Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science (2009-present), Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).

2012Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Occupation

Atomic physicist.

Places

Birth

Grinnell (Iowa)

Undergraduate Education

Cambridge (Mass.)

Graduate Education

Berkeley (Calif.)

Employment

Murray Hill (N.J.)

Ann Arbor (Mich.)

Stanford (Calif.)

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics.

Biophysics.

Condensed matter.

Lasers.

Nanoscience.

X-rays.

Relationships

People

Advisors & Collaborators

Commins, Eugene D.

Ph.D. advisor at University of California, Berkeley, "Measurement of the Parity Non-conserving Neutral Weak Interaction in Atomic Thallium."

Colleagues

Aeppli, Gabriel

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Alivisatos, P.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Appelbaum, J. A. (Joel A.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ashkin, Arthur, 1922-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Aspnes, D. E.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Beasley, Malcolm

Both employed at Stanford University.

Bienenstock, Arthur

Both employed at Stanford University.

Bishop, David John, 1951-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Buchsbaum, Solomon J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Burchat, P. (Patricia)

Both employed at Stanford University.

Byer, R. L. (Robert L.), 1942-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Cabrera, Blas

Both employed at Stanford University.

Cava, Robert J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chemla, D. S.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chu, Steven

Both employed at Stanford University and Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chynoweth, A. G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Clarke, John, 1942-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Clogston, Albert McCavour

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Cohen, Marvin L.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Diamond, R. M.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

DiSalvo, Francis

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dolan, Gerald

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dynes, Robert C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Eigler, Donald

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Fetter, Alexander L., 1937-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Fleury, Paul A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Fulton, Theodore Alan

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Geballe, Theodore H.

Both employed at Stanford University.

Gossard, A. C.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Greene, Laura H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Grunder, Hermann

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Hagstrum, Homer D.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Haldane, F. Duncan M.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Hamann, Donald, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Hellman, Frances

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Hohenberg, Pierre C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hopfield, John J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Isaacs, Eric D.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Johnson, Peter D., 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Kahn, Steven Michael

Both employed at Stanford University.

Kivelson, Steven

Both employed at Stanford University.

Laughlin, Robert B.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Stanford University.

Lee, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1946-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lee, Yuan Tseh, 1936-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Linde, A. D.

Both employed at Stanford University.

Matthias, Bernd T., 1918-1980

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

May, Michael M., 1925-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Millis, Andrew J.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Murnane, Margaret

Both employed at University of Michigan.

Murray, Cherry Ann

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Nagamiya, S. (Shoji)

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Narath, Albert, 1933-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Nygren, David R.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Oddone, Piermaria J.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Both employed at Stanford University and Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Patel, C. Kumar N.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Penzias, Arno A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Pfann, William G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, J. C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, Julia M.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Pinczuk, Aron

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Poskanzer, A. M. (Arthur M.), 1931-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Raghavachari, Krishnan

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Rowell, John Martin, 1935-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Shank, C. V. (Charles V.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Shen, Zhi-Xun

Both employed at Stanford University.

Shirley, David Arthur, 1934-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Smith, George E., 1930-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Stephens, F. S. (Frank Samuel)

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Stillinger, F. H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Stöhr, Joachim

Both employed at Stanford University.

Störmer, Horst

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Susskind, Leonard

Both employed at Stanford University.

Tank, David William, 1953-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Tersoff, J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Trilling, George H.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Tsui, D. C. (Daniel Chee), 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Weeks, John David

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Wieman, C. E. (Carl Edwin)

Both employed at Stanford University.

Willett, Robert L.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Wojcicki, Stanley G., 1937-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Institutions

Major Positions

AT & T Bell Laboratories

Member, Technical staff, Physics Research Division.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Research Fellow and Member, Technical Staff, Physics Research Division.

Columbia University. Department of Physics

Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physics.

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Research Fellow.

Stanford University. Department of Applied Physics

Professor of Applied Physics.

Stanford University. Department of Physics

Professor of Physics and Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science.

University of Michigan. Department of Physics

Professor Physics; Otto Laporte Collegiate Professor of Physics; and Peter Franken Distinguished University Professor of Physics.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Physical Society

Harvard University. Department of Physics

Obtained AB in 1975.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Optical Society of America

President.

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

Visiting Scholar.

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics

Obtained MA in 1978 and PhD in 1980.

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

American Institute of Physics 75th anniversary symposium and convocation [webcasts], 2006.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Published Resources

Author

Art and symmetry in experimental physics : Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins : Berkeley, California, 20-21 May 2001 / editors, Dmitry Budker, Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stuart J. Freedman.