Name Thomas Timusk | Education University of Toronto | |
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Tom Timusk 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. He was an immigrant from Estonia displaced by Second World War. He settled in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
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- P ramiidi tipus thomas timusk osa 3
- Thomas timusk eksperimentaalf sika lijuhid ja infrapunakiirgus
- Research
- Education
- Associations
- Awards
- Papers
- References
Thomas timusk eksperimentaalf sika lijuhid ja infrapunakiirgus
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.
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.