Jerry Tersoff

Jerry Tersoff is a Principal Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His work spans diverse topics in the theoretical understanding of surfaces, interfaces, electronic materials, epitaxial growth, and nanoscale devices. Throughout his career, his work has emphasized the use of simple models to understand complex behavior.[1]

Awards and honors
  • 1988 Peter Mark Memorial award "For innovative approaches to the theoretical understanding of the electronic structure, properties, and measurement of surfaces and interfaces."
  • 1996 MRS Medal "For seminal contributions to the theory of strain relaxation in thin films."
  • 1997 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics "For insightful, creative theoretical descriptions of surface phenomenology; particularly of crystal growth dynamics, surface structures and their probes."
  • 2007 Medard W. Welch Award "For seminal theoretical contributions to the understanding of surfaces, interfaces, thin films and nanostructures of electronic materials."

See also

References
  1. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sv2zUxcAAAAJ


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