1986 Von Hippel Award Honors Minko Balkanski
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Balkanski arranged to have a variety of scientists working in many fields bring their special theoretical and experimental talents to bear on the research projects. He created a productive atmosphere and used his exceptional instinct for choosing active areas to inspire students and senior scientists. He also never lost track of the importance of writing reviews and books to enable new researchers to participate in areas he felt were exciting. Realizing the importance of international conferences for exchanging information, he and associates working under his direction are credited with establishing the style and organization of some of the most successful series of conferences in physics. Balkanski has served as a scientific consultant both in France and the United States and has served professional organizations in numerous capacities. In addition f— to his current teaching responsibilities at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, he is also dean of international affairs at the University, scientific advisor for Thomson C.S.F. and for the director of E.S.l.E.E. He V is a member of the Publications Board of the European Physical Society and a member of the editorial boards of seven scientific journals. He is the author or editor of nine books and well over 500 scientific articles.
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Minko Balkanski 1986 Von Hippel Award Recipient turned from excitons to phonons, and using optical pumping, he demonstrated the importance of multiphonon transitions. The phonon research resulted in the first observation of fano resonance in the localized mode, and significant contributions in the areas of impurity-induced density of states spectra, lattice dynamics of semiconductor alloys, superlattice phenomena, and phonon modes in ferroelectrics. He is one of the pioneers in the area of Raman scattering in semiconductors. Electron-phonon coupling is another area where Balkanski's influence has been felt. His early work on continuum-discrete phonon interference and distortion of line shapes led him to a significant effort in an area which may be referred to as manybody aspects of solid-state spectroscopy. Balkanski and his students have had a major influence on surface physics. Photoemission studies in his laboratory on semiconductor surfaces with adsorbates are at this time the world's best. During the 1960s and 1970s, he and his group provided some of the best data available to unravel the origins of the structure in optical and electronic materials. He also provided some of the most important data on narrow gap semiconductors. More recent research has focused on amorphous silicon, glass-crystalline transformations, optoelectronics, and superionic conductors. Again, Balkanski has picked the most relevant experiments to do, and he has formed important collaborations with theoristsand experimentalists to solve major problems. Following in the von Hippel tradition,
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