Sarachik Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/sarachik/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:53:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sarachik Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/sarachik/ 32 32 59910430 Myriam Sarachik, passed away on October 7, 2021. https://concernedscientists.org/2021/10/myriam-sarachik-passed-away-on-october-7-2021/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:57:08 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9339 One of the longest-serving members of the CCS Board, Myriam Sarachik, passed aways on October 7, 2021. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4907 Besides Myriam’s work on human rights of scientists, she had a long and distinguished career in physics, see her short bio at https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Sarachik&first_nm=Myriam&year=2020, and her autobiography at https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-033117-054029. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/science/myriam-sarachik-dead.html

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]]> 9339 CCS Board Member, Myriam Sarachik, Profiled in NY Post Article https://concernedscientists.org/2019/11/new-york-post-writes-about-ccs-board-member-myriam-sarachik/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:24:54 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7684 Dr. Myriam Sarachik, CCS Board Member and New York City College professor and researcher, was profiled in the November 9, 2019 issue of the New York Post. Dr. Sarachik overcame significant odds in a primarily male dominant field, as well as serious family tragedies, to earn her doctorate in Physics and obtain a teaching position […]

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]]> 7684 Member of the CCS Honorary Board Myriam Sarachik Receives the Highest Prize of the American Physical Society: APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research https://concernedscientists.org/2019/08/member-of-the-ccs-honorary-board-myriam-sarachik-receives-the-highest-prize-of-the-american-physical-society-aps-medal-for-exceptional-achievement-in-research/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:18:36 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7526 2020 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research Awarded to Myriam P. Sarachik

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]]> 7526 A Very Merry Happy 85th Birthday to Our Very Dear Advisory Board Member, Myriam Sarachik https://concernedscientists.org/2018/08/a-very-merry-happy-85th-birthday-to-our-very-dear-advisory-board-member-myriam-sarachik/ Sat, 04 Aug 2018 02:47:56 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=7079 Myriam Sarachik, famous for her pioneering experiments on the Kondo effect, metal-insulator transitions and spin tunneling, turns 85. She has been an invaluable, long-time CCS Board Member devoted to the human rights of scientists. I encourage everybody to read Myriam’s short autobiography: Pushing Boundaries: My Personal and Scientific Journey. Deeply personal, it encompasses great events […]

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