A specialist in nano- and spontaneous magnetism, Myriam Sarachik ’50 most recently earned the 2020 Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research from the American Physical Society for “contributions to the physics of electronic transport in solids and molecular magnetism.”

Sarachik ’50 also serves as an active board member of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, a prominent international organization that promotes the human rights and academic freedom of scientists, physicians and other scholars in the sciences.

Join us as Sarachik ’50 discusses her research and the pivotal part Bronx Science played in her professional success.

Alumni Conversations: Myriam Sarachik ’50
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EST
Venue: Virtual

About Our Speaker

Myriam Sarachik ’50 is Distinguished Professor Emerita at City College who has published extensively in professional journals on her work in superconductivity, disordered metallic alloys, metal-insulator transitions in doped semiconductors, hopping transport in solids, properties of strongly interacting electrons in two dimensions, and spin dynamics in molecular magnets. Dr. Sarachik ‘50 has served in an advisory capacity to the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the American Institute of Physics, the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences. She has been a member and the chair of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council and a member of the Board of the American Institute of Physics. Following many years' activities on numerous committees and as a Board member, she served as President of the American Physical Society in 2003.