Manuel Cardona

Manuel Cardona Castro (b. 7 October, 1934, Barcelona, Spain) is a physicist.

Academic career

After obtaining a Masters in physics in 1955 from University of Barcelona Cardona was awarded a fellowship to work as a graduate student at Harvard University starting in 1956. At Harvard he began investigations of the dielectric properties of semiconductors, in particular germanium and silicon. With this work as a thesis he received a PhD in Applied Physics at Harvard. From 1959 till 1961 he continued similar work on III-V semiconductors at the RCA Laboratories in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1961 he moved to the RCA Labs in Princeton, NJ, where he continued work on the optical properties of semiconductors and started investigations of the microwave properties of superconductors. In 1964 he became member of the Physics Faculty of Brown University (Providence, RI). In 1971 he moved to Stuttgart, Germany as a founding director of the then-recently created Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Concomitantly he became scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, where he became emeritus 1n 2000.

Distinctions and honors

♦ 1962 RCA Laboratories Prize ♦ 1964 American Physical Society, Fellow ♦ 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship ♦ 1965-1968 A.D. Sloan Fellow ♦ 1969-1970 Guggenheim Fellow ♦ 1982 Narcís Monturiol Medal, Government of Catalonia ♦ 1984 Frank Isakson Prize, American Physical Society ♦ 1984 Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science ♦ 1984 Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of Sciences of Barcelona ♦ 1987 Member, National Academy of Sciences of the USA ♦ 1987 Grand Cross of Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain ♦ 1988 "Principe de Asturias" Prize, named after the Crown Prince of Spain ♦ 1988 J.M.M. von Kronland Medal, Czech Spectroscopic Society ♦ 1991 Member, Academia Europaea ♦ 1992 Medaglia Teresiana, University of Pavia, Italy ♦ 1993 Italgas Prize for Research in Science and Technology, Turin, Italy ♦ 1994 Max Planck Research Prize, shared with E.E.Haller, Berkeley ♦ 1995 Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain ♦ 1997 John Wheatley Prize, American Physical Society ♦ 1999 E. Mach Honorary Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences ♦ 2000 Charter Member, ISI highly cited researchers database (http://isihighlycited.com) ♦ 2001 Sir Nevil Mott Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, London ♦ 2001 Fellow, Institute of Physics, London ♦ 2003 Honorary Member,Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia ♦ 2004 Mateucci Medal, Italian National Academy of Sciences 2008 Foreign Member Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome ♦ 2008 Gold Medal Alessandro Volta, University of Pavia ♦ 2009 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada ♦ 2011 Bernadsky Gold Medal, Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine ♦ 1985-2010 eleven honorary doctorates.

Publications of and about Manuel Cardona

♦ Manuel Cardona: Modulation Spectroscopy, Academic Press 1969. Lib of Congress 55-12299 ♦ Manuel Cardona, Gernot Günterodt and Roberto Merlin: Light Scattering in Solids I-IX (nine volumes) Springer Verlag; ISBN 3-540-11513-7

♦ Pere Bonnin: Manuel Cardona i Castro, Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, Barcelona 1998 ISBN:84-89570-19-3 ♦ Peter Y. Yu and Manuel Cardona, Fundamentals of semiconductors, 4 editions 1996-2000,ISBN 978-3-642-00709-5 ♦ 0ver 1300 scientific articles in various international journals

Personal life

At present he lives in Stuttgart with his wife Inge Cardona (née Hecht). They both hold American, German and Spanish citizenship. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren