Paul Canfield, a Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Robert Allen Wright Endowed Professor in Physics and Astronomy, a senior scientist at the Ames National Laboratory and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He’s being honored, “For distinguished contributions to the field of materials physics, particularly for his ability to cook up new intermetallic alloys with exotic properties that provide fundamental understanding.”
Canfield’s research group focuses on the design, discovery, growth, characterization and mastery of novel electronic and magnetic materials. Canfield’s group has been active at Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory for 30 years and is known for its contributions to the fields of superconductivity, magnetism, quantum criticality and correlated electron systems.