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Neil S. Sullivan is Professor of Physics at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He received his PhD at Harvard University in 1972, working on NMR studies at low temperatures with Robert Pound. He and his students in Paris discovered the quadrupolar glass phase of solid hydrogen and have studied the dynamics of point defects in quantum solids, both helium and hydrogen. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, and member of the Société Française de Physique, he was awarded the Prix Saintour by the College of France in 1978, and the La Caze Physics Prize by the Académie des Sciences (Paris) in 1983. He received the Jesse Beams award of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society in 2022, and was inducted into the Florida Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine in 2025. He was one of the founding Principal Investigators for the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (1990). He has authored more than 300 referred publications in his field, and was one of the founders of UF’s Microkelvin Laboratory (with Dwight Adams and Gary Ihas). He is currently one of the Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Low-Temperature Physics (Springer Publishing Co), and serves on the Space Science & Technology Committee of the Southern Universities Research Association.
He was born in Wanganui, New Zealand, and earned a B.Sc. from Otago University (New Zealand) in 1964 with first class honors, and an M.Sc. in 1965. He was awarded a Frank Knox Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966 to attend graduate school at Harvard University.
W. Li, J. S. Xia, C. Vicente, N. S. Sullivan, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West, Crossover from non-universal scaling regime to universal scaling regime in quantum Hall plateau transition, Phys. Rev. B 81, 033305-033309 (2010).
S. S. Kim, C. Huan, L. Yin, J. S. Xia, D. Candela and N. S. Sullivan, NMR Studies of 3He Impurities in 4He in the Proposed Supersolid Phase, J. Low Temp. Phys. 158, 584-589 (2010).
Yu Ji, J. A. Hamida and N. S. Sullivan, NMR Studies of Quantum Rotors Confined in Zeolite, J. Low Temp. Phys. 158, 509-514 (2010).
L. Yin, J. S. Xia, N. S. Sullivan, V. S. Zapf and A. Paduan-Filho, Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements at Ultra-low Temperatures, J. Low Temp. Phys. 158, 710-715 (2010).
C. Huan, S. S. Kim, L. Phelps, J. S. Xia, D. Candela and N. S. Sullivan, A Novel Design of a Low Temperature Preamplifier for Pulsed NMR Experiments of Dilute 3He in Solid 4He, J. Low Temp. Phys. 158, 692-696 (2010).
S. Pilla, J.A. Hamida, K.A. Muttalib, and N.S. Sullivan, Generalized Fluctuation Dissipation and Thermal Hysteresis of Dielectric Susceptibility in Frustrated Molecular Orientational Glasses, J. Physics (Conf. Series) 150, 042192-0421096 (2009).
L. Yin, J.S. Xia, V.S. Zapf, N.S. Sullivan and A. Paduan-Filho, A direct measurement of the Bose-Einstein Condensation universality class in NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2 at ultra-low temperatures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 187205 (2008).
J.S. Xia, H. L. Stormer, D.C. Tsui, C. Vicente, E.D. Adams, N.S. Sullivan, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. Baldwin, and K.W. West, Experimental studies of the fractional quantum Hall effect in the first excited Landau level, Phys. Rev. B77, 075307-075312 (2008).
M. Pilla, J.A. Hamida, K. Muttalib and N. S. Sullivan, Thermal hysteresis of the dielectric susceptibility of solid oxygen in the audio frequency range, Phys. Rev. B77, 224108-22415 (2008).
Instiute of Physics (London), Member; 1990 - present
American Physical Socoety, Fellow; 1986 - present
Neil S. Sullivan is Professor of Physics at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He received his PhD at Harvard University in 1972, working on NMR studies at low temperatures with Robert Pound. He and his students in Paris discovered the quadrupolar glass phase of solid hydrogen and have studied the dynamics of point defects in quantum solids, both helium and hydrogen. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, and member of the Société Française de Physique, he was awarded the Prix Saintour by the College of France in 1978, and the La Caze Physics Prize by the Académie des Sciences (Paris) in 1983. He received the Jesse Beams award of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society in 2022, and was inducted into the Florida Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine in 2025. He was one of the founding Principal Investigators for the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (1990). He has authored more than 300 referred publications in his field, and was one of the founders of UF’s Microkelvin Laboratory (with Dwight Adams and Gary Ihas). He is currently one of the Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Low-Temperature Physics (Springer Publishing Co), and serves on the Space Science & Technology Committee of the Southern Universities Research Association.
He was born in Wanganui, New Zealand, and earned a B.Sc. from Otago University (New Zealand) in 1964 with first class honors, and an M.Sc. in 1965. He was awarded a Frank Knox Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966 to attend graduate school at Harvard University.
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