18 Facts About Myriam Sarachik

Myriam Paula Sarachik was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics.

Myriam Sarachik is known for the first experimental confirmation of the Kondo effect in the 1960s.

Myriam Sarachik was born Myriam Paula Morgenstein on August 8,1933, in Antwerp, Belgium.

Myriam Sarachik's parents, Sarah and Schloimo Morgenstein, were Orthodox Jews who were born in Poland.

Myriam Sarachik's mother moved to Belgium as a child and her father moved in his mid-teens.

Myriam Sarachik's father worked as a diamond cutter and diamond dealer.

Myriam Sarachik spent the next five and a half years in Cuba as a refugee, where she attended school and learned Spanish and English.

Myriam Sarachik graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1950 and began studying at Barnard College the same year.

Myriam Sarachik showed that there was a one-to-one correspondence between the presence of local magnetic moments and the minimum of the resistance in metallic materials.

Myriam Sarachik's experiments provided the first data that confirmed the Kondo effect.

Myriam Sarachik's work was primarily in the field of low temperature condensed matter physics, in which she focused on molecular nanomagnets and novel phenomena in dilute two-dimensional electron systems.

Myriam Sarachik researched the transport and magnetic properties of semiconductors and quantum tunnelling.

In 2020, Myriam Sarachik was awarded the American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research for her "contributions to the physics of electronic transport in solids and molecular magnetism".

Myriam Sarachik was president of APS in 2003, and was awarded the Oliver E Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize in 2005.

Myriam Sarachik was active in defending the human rights of scientists as a member and chair of the Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists of the APS, a long-time member of the Human Rights of Scientists Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a board member of the Committee of Concerned Scientists.

In 1954, Myriam married Philip Sarachik, a professor of electrical engineering at New York University.

In 1970, five-year-old Leah was kidnapped by Myriam Sarachik's housekeeper using the family car.

Myriam Sarachik died on October 7,2021, in Manhattan at the age of 88.