Brent Fultz

Brent Fultz
Brent Fultz presenting at the William Hume-Rothery Award Lecture
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1982)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc., 1975)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials Science
Applied physics
Statistical Mechanics
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorJohn. W. Morris

Brent Fultz is an American physicist and materials scientist and one of the world's leading authorities on statistical mechanics, diffraction, and phase transitions in materials. Fultz is the Barbara and Stanley Rawn Jr. Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology.[1] He is known for his research in materials physics and materials chemistry, and for establishing the importance of phonon entropy to the phase stability of materials.[2] Additionally, Fultz oversaw the construction of the wide angular-range chopper spectrometer (ARCS) instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source[3] and has made advances in phonon measuring techniques.[2]

He is the author of two graduate level textbooks, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials (with James M. Howe, Springer, 2001; 4th ed., 2013) on diffractometry of materials,[4][5] and Phase Transitions in Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2014) on phase transitions in materials.[6]

  1. ^ Brent Fultz faculty page
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference hraward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Robinson, Lynne (January 31, 2011), "The Scientific Journey of Brent Fultz", Tech News Headlines, JOM: The Member Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
  4. ^ Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials by John Hutchison (2001), Journal of Microsopy 204 (3): 263–264, doi:10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00962-2.x
  5. ^ Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials by Douglas L. Dorset (202), Journal of Applied Crystallography 35 (1): 145–146, doi:10.1107/S0021889801020532
  6. ^ Review of Phase Transition in Materials by A. M. Glazer (2015), Acta Crystallographica B 71 (1): 122–123, doi:10.1107/S205252061500075X