Norman Phillips

LBNL Faculty Senior Scientist
Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

nephill@ berkeley.edu
phone: 510-642-4855

Education
B.A., M.A Chemistry, University of British Columbia
Ph.D Chemistry, University of Chicago

Major Awards
1954 NRC Postdoctoral Fellow (UCB)
1961 Sloan Fellow (UCB)
1963 Guggenheim Fellow (Oxford University)
1965 Fellow, American Physical Society
1965 Fellow, AAAS
1970 NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (Technical University, Helsinki)
1985 Professeur Associé (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
1991 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt)
1992 Invited Lecturer in Physics of the National Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan
2004 Hugh M Huffman Award of the Calorimetry Conference

General Research Interests
Materials and Solid State Chemistry —Measurements of low-temperature properties, primarily specific heat, are compared with theoretical calculations and other models to provide insight on the relation between macroscopic properties and microscopic structure. The specific-heat measurements, which include measurements under pressure and in magnetic fields, have been made on a variety of materials, including, e.g., condensed phases of 3He and 4He, superconductors, normal metals, magnetic materials, and heavy-fermion compounds. The materials studied most recently are manganites, MgB2 and C-doped MgB2, “exotic” superconductors (the cuprate high-Tc superconductors, CeRhIn5 UGe2, and Na0.3CoO2·1.3H2O), and nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes.