• Professor, Physics

• Ph.D. in Physics at Purdue University
• M.S. in Physics at Purdue University
• B.S. in Physics at MIT

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Center for Materials Innovation New center brings many collaborators together Sept. 19, 2003 -- New and improved consumer goods, better planes, vehicles, and electronics, and new biomedical products that could lead to better pharmaceuticals and innovative medical devices are among the objectives of a new, interdisciplinary center housed in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. The Center for Materials Innovation, (CMI) located in the refurbished basement of Crow Hall, will enable collaborators from across campus to make basic and applied advances in materials research, eventually touching many aspects of daily life.

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He led a research group that recently discovered the new phenomenon of Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR), which has impacted many important technologies and was selected as one of the most significant discoveries of 2002 by the American Physical Society.

He received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1963 (in three years) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue University in 1965 and 1969, respectively. He joined the University of Chicago faculty and became co-director of the National Science Foundation Materials Research Laboratory and served as a distinguished professor. Ten years later, Solin went to Michigan State University, where he organized and directed the Center for Fundamental Materials Research. He then joined the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ, as a fellow, the highest scientific rank in the company. While there, he served as chair of its governing body.

As the author of more than 230 scientific articles and a host of scholarly reviews, and as editor or co-editor of several books, Solin has been widely published in his areas of specialization. In addition, he is a principal editor of the Journal of Materials Research and a member of the U.S. editorial advisory board for the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Furthermore, he holds 15 patents and received the Best Patent Award in 1998 as well as the NEC's Technology Impact Award in 2000.

In addition to those honors, Solin is a former Sloan Fellow and is currently a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow and a chartered physicist of the United Kingdom's Institute of Physics.