Richard Greene is known for his many years of productive research on the physics of novel superconducting materials, at the IBM research laboratories and at the University of Maryland. He and his collaborators discovered the first known polymeric and two-dimensional organic superconductors in the 1970s. Since 1986, Dr. Greene has done extensive research on high-Tc superconductors, primarily electron-doped cuprates and iron-based materials. He has written several well-known reviews about these two superconducting systems. He was also involved in the development of the relaxation technique for specific heat measurements, a technique that is now widely used in the Quantum Design PPMS. His publications are very highly cited, with over 33,000 citations and an h-index of 96. He was the founding director of the Center for Superconductivity Research at the University of Maryland in 1989. He is a Fellow of the APS and the AAAS and the APS Dissertation Award for Experimental Condensed Matter Physics is named in his honor. In 2022, he was named a University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor.

Research Area: 

• Condensed Matter Experiment
• Quantum Science and Technology

Research Projects:

• Cuprate high-temperature superconductors
• Iron-pnictide and related superconductors
• Search for new and practical superconductors
• Topological Insulators

Centers & Institutes: Quantum Materials Center; Maryland NanoCenter

• Physics 104: How Things Work
• Physics 174: Laboratory Introduction
• Physics 272: Fields

• Das Sarma and Greene Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Rick Greene Named Kamerlingh Onnes Prize Winner
• Greene Named Distinguished University Professor
• Two Physics Students Named Merrill Presidential Scholars
• Perfect Quantum Portal Emerges at Exotic Interface
• High-temperature superconductivity reveals its secret
• Greene & Paglione's Review Paper Published in Nature Physics

Elizabeth Beise is a Professor of Physics and the Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Programs. She earned her B.A. in Physics from Carleton College in 1981, and her Ph.D. in Physics in 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joined UMD in 1993 after a research scientist position in the Kellogg Radiation Lab at the California Institute of Technology. Her research in experimental nuclear physics focuses on the use of electromagnetic and weak probes of the internal structure of protons, neutrons and light nuclei, and on the use of nuclear physics techniques to test fundamental symmetries of nature. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Beise is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.

Research Area:

• Nuclear Physics

Research Projects:

• Experimental study of QCD properties of nucleons
• Fundamental symmetry tests with cold and ultracold neutrons
• Novel techniques in neutron detection

• Betsy Beise Named University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
• UMD Physicists Among New AAAS Fellows