Girsh Blumberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Girsh Blumberg

American physicist

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1959

Place of Birth: Viljandi, Viljandi County, Estonia

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Girsh Blumberg is an Estonian-American experimental physicist working in the field of experimental condensed matter physics, spectroscopy, nano-optics, and plasmonics.
Blumberg is also a fellow at the American Physical Society and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University. Girsh Blumberg is best known for his contribution to electronic Raman scattering studies in strongly correlated electron systems, superconductors and quantum spin systems. He has co-authored over 100 publications and is inventor on over 30 patents in the fields of electronic and optical devices, spectroscopy and nano-plasmonics.
He and his collaborators made the first observation of the Leggett mode in multiband superconductors, have observed Wigner crystallization in strongly interacting quantum spin ladder systems, , have explained long-standing puzzle of the “Hidden Order” in URu2Si2 heavy fermion compound, have made a discovery of the chiral spin waves on the surface of topological insulators, to name a few. In 2006 Blumberg was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his seminal contributions to elucidating the physics of spin, charge and superconducting correlations in 1D and 2D complex oxide compounds using Raman scattering techniques". Blumberg was a recipient of Golda Meir fellowship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992.