Anthony F. Garito
Anthony F. Garito | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anthony Frank Garito New Rochelle, New York, United States |
| Died | 1 November 2006 (aged 67) Radnor, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Alma mater | Columbia University University of Pennsylvania |
| Awards | APS Fellow (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Solid state physics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral students | Mark G. Kuzyk |
Anthony Frank Garito (died 1 November 2006) was an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography
Garito was born in New Rochelle, New York.[1] He obtained a BS from Columbia University in 1962, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.[2]
In 1970, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor of physics, was promoted to associate professor in 1973, and to full professor in 1978.[2]
During this period, he served as a visiting scholar at the University of Paris in 1977 and at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1978.[1] He was also a visiting professor at the University of Southern California in 1984.[1] From 1986 to 1991, he was a team leader of the Molecular Device Research Team in the Frontier Materials Research Program at RIKEN in Japan.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998 and became an emeritus professor in 2002.[2]
He died of lung cancer on 1 November 2006 at his home in Radnor, Pennsylvania.[4]
Research
His early research focused on organic charge-transfer complexes including collaborative work with Alan Heeger on TTF-TCNQ.[2] In 1973, almost simultaneously with the independent research by John P. Ferraris et al.,[5] they reported a sharp increase in conductivity in TTF-TCNQ just before the Peierls transition,[6] which they interpreted as arising from superconducting fluctuations. Combined with the theory of exciton superconductivity by William A. Little,[7] the report attracted attention.[8] Although this interpretation was later shown to result from experimental artifacts, their works stimulated the field of organic conductors.[8][9]
He also researched nonlinear optical phenomena occurring at fast and ultrafast time scales in organic crystals and polymers.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b c Jaques Cattell Press, ed. (1986). American Men & Women of Science. Vol. III (16th ed.). R. R. Bowker Co. p. 41.
- ^ a b c d e "Death, Dr. Garito, Physics and Astronomy". Almanac. 53 (12). University of Pennsylvania. 2006.
- ^ "Chapter 10: Science Technology -Deeping from the Atomic Level-" (PDF) (in Japanese). RIKEN. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
- ^ a b "Anthony Garito Obituary". Legacy. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
- ^ Ferraris, John; Cowan, D. O.; Walatka, V.; Perlstein, J. H. (1973). "Electron transfer in a new highly conducting donor-acceptor complex". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 95 (3): 948–949. Bibcode:1973JAChS..95..948F. doi:10.1021/ja00784a066.
- ^ Coleman, L.B.; Cohen, M.J.; Sandman, D.J.; Yamagishi, F.G.; Garito, A.F.; Heeger, A.J. (1973). "Superconducting fluctuations and the peierls instability in an organic solid". Solid State Communications. 12 (11): 1125–1132. doi:10.1016/0038-1098(73)90127-0.
- ^ Little, W. A. (1964). "Possibility of Synthesizing an Organic Superconductor". Physical Review. 134: A1416–A1424. Bibcode:1964PhRv..134.1416L. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.134.A1416.
- ^ a b Jerome, Denis; Bourbonnais, Claude (2024). "Quasi one-dimensional organic conductors: from Fröhlich conductivity and Peierls insulating state to magnetically-mediated superconductivity, a retrospective". Comptes Rendus. Physique. 25: 17–178. arXiv:2311.03104. Bibcode:2024CRPhy..25...17J. doi:10.5802/crphys.164.
- ^ Poehler, T.O. (1976). "organic conductors" (PDF). APL Technical Digest. 15 (4): 13–21.