Myriam Sarachik

Myriam Sarachik
Sarachik in 2019
Born
Myriam Paula Morgenstein

(1933-08-08)August 8, 1933
Antwerp, Belgium
DiedOctober 7, 2021(2021-10-07) (aged 88)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma materBarnard College (BA)
Columbia University (MS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsCity College of New York
ThesisPenetration of magnetic fields through superconducting lead films (1960)
Doctoral advisorRichard Garwin

Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933 – October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics. From 1996, she was a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York. She is known for the first experimental confirmation of the Kondo effect in the 1960s.


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