Dr. Emmanuel I. Rashba

Host: Professor Charles M. Marcus

Dr. Rashba was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1927 and has had a long and distinguished career in both the former Soviet Union and here in the United States. He received his Diploma (equivalent of Masters Degree) in 1949 from Kiev University. He then received his Candidate of Science (Ph.D equivalent) degree in 1956 from the Academy of Science of the Ukraine and his Doctor of Sciences degree from the A.F. Ioffe Institute for Physics and Technology in Leningrad ( St. Petersburg) in 1963. In 1968 he became Professor of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from the L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow. Prof. Rashba worked at the L.D. Landau Institute as the Head of the Theory of Semiconductors Division from 1966 through 1992 and remained involved with the Institute as Principal Scientist from 1992 through 1997.
Dr. Rashba came to the United States in 1991 and spent four months as a Visiting Professor at CCNY before becoming a Research Professor at the University of Utah through 2000. He spent some time at both SUNY at Buffalo and Dartmouth College between 2000-2003 before coming to Harvard in 2004 where he now collaborates with Harvard Faculty as a member of the CNS Visiting Scientist Program.
Recently, Dr. Rashba has delivered two special lectures in March 2005; The Sir Nevill Mott Lecture in England and the Arkady Aronov Memorial Lecture in Israel. Over his long career, he has published more than 200 scientific papers, won many prestigious awards and honors including the National Prize of the USSR (formerly known as the Lenin Prize) in 1966 as well as the A. F. Ioffe Prize of the Academy of Science of the USSR in 1987, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. CNS is very pleased that such a renowned scientist has chosen Harvard as a place to collaborate and share his vast knowledge of science.

His work at Harvard consists mostly of collaborating with Professor Charles Marcus, Professor Bertrand Halperin and Professor Robert Westervelt and their research groups in the field of Condensed Matter Theory and more specifically, Spintronics. His areas of specialization and interest include but are not limited to; microcscopic and phenomenological theory of semiconductors, spectroscopy and magnetospectroscopy of solids (including excitons), theory of the strong electron-phonon coupling, theory of 1D conductors and 2D electronic systems, organic molecular crystals, semimetals, oxide superconductors, spectroscopy of the Quantum Hall Effect etc.

Should you wish to contact Dr. Rashba to discuss his research as part of the CNS Visiting Scientist Program, please email him at erashba@physics.harvard.edu.