Sunil Sinha Named 2004 MRS Medalists

By Kim McDonald | December 13, 2004

UCSD Physics Professor Sunil Sinha is one of three scientists who were recently awarded 2004 medals from the Materials Research Society.

Sinha was recognized by the society, which awarded the medals on December 1 at its fall meeting in Boston, "for seminal contributions to understanding mechanisms of thin-film surface and interface morphology evolution and establishing the foundations of diffraction and scattering methods for its quantitative analysis."

Sinha received his PhD degree in physics from Cambridge University in 1964 and has joint appointments with UCSD and Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests involve both soft condensed matter (polymer films, confined fluids and lipid membranes) and magnetic thin films and complex oxide materials. His group carries out experiments at the Manuel Lujan neutron scattering facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the APS at Argonne, the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley and the NSLS at Brookhaven, among other facilities. Apart from carrying out scattering experiments on novel systems, he has over 240 publications and is the editor of three books. His honors include the Arthur H. Compton Award of the Advanced Photon Source, the Ernest O. Lawrence Award, Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and fellowships in the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.