20 Facts About Thomas Rosenbaum

Thomas Felix Rosenbaum was born on February 20,1955 and is an American condensed matter physicist, professor of physics, and the current president of the California Institute of Technology.

Previously, Rosenbaum served as a faculty member and Provost of the University of Chicago.

Thomas Rosenbaum has served as the vice president for research at Argonne National Laboratory.

Thomas Rosenbaum grew up in Queens, New York City, where he spent much of his time playing basketball and frequenting theater and jazz productions.

Thomas Rosenbaum is of German-Jewish descent, with both sets of his grandparents having left Germany after World War II.

Thomas Rosenbaum attended Forest Hills High School in Queens, and was a finalist in the 1973 Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Thomas Rosenbaum received his bachelor's degree in physics with honors from Harvard University in 1977.

Thomas Rosenbaum then went on to work with Professor Gordon A Thomas at Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.

From January 2007, Thomas Rosenbaum served as the provost of the University of Chicago.

Thomas Rosenbaum directed the university's Materials Research Laboratory from 1991 to 1994, the university's James Franck Institute, an interdisciplinary research unit, from 1995 to 2001, and served as vice president for research and for Argonne National Laboratory from 2002 to 2006.

Thomas Rosenbaum is a member of the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Santa Fe Institute Science Board, a trustee of the National Opinion Research Center, and a trustee of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Thomas Rosenbaum was announced as the eighth president of The California Institute of Technology on the morning of October 24,2013 and took office at Caltech on or about July 1,2014.

Thomas Rosenbaum was formally inaugurated into the office on October 24,2014.

Thomas Rosenbaum has both exploited and advanced methods in experimental low temperature physics, developing new techniques for high-resolution studies at milliKelvin temperatures, complementing laboratory dilution refrigerator approaches with synchrotron x-ray measurements in diamond anvil cells at cryogenic temperatures.

Thomas Rosenbaum established the nature of the metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors and correlated materials, and demonstrated macroscopic anisotropy of non-s-wave superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds.

Thomas Rosenbaum is interested in the macroscopic manifestations of quantum mechanics and harnessing disorder to craft a material's electrical, magnetic, and optical response.

Thomas Rosenbaum spurred transformational work in seismology at Caltech and advanced research initiatives at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Alongside his wife, materials scientist Katherine Faber, Thomas Rosenbaum has been instrumental in establishing numerous graduate fellowships and research funding opportunities.

Thomas Rosenbaum's honors include an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the William McMillan Award for "outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics".

Thomas Rosenbaum is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.