M. Brian Maple

Merrill Brian Maple is an American physicist.. He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and holds the Bernd T. Matthias Chair in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego, and conducts research at the universitys Center for Advanced Nanoscience. He has also served as the director of UCSDs Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences and its Center for Interface and Materials Science . His primary research interest is condensed matter physics, involving phenomena like magnetism and superconductivity. He has authored or coauthored more than 900 scientific publications and five patents in correlated electron physics, high pressure physics, nano physics, and surface science.

He was born November 20, 1939 in Chula Vista, California. He received BA and BS degrees in 1963 from San Diego State College . He received an MS in 1965 and a PhD in physics from UCSD in 1969, working under Matthias, and has been on the UCSD faculty since 1973. He became an associate professor in 1977, was named a full professor in 1981 and a Distinguished Professor in 2005. He has held the Bernd T. Matthias endowed chair since 1990. From 2004 through 2010 he also served as chair of the physics department.

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