Weinstein Named Fellow of American Physical Society

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Bernard A. Weinstein, Ph.D., professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Election to APS fellowship is limited to only one half of one percent of the membership of each unit in the society.

According to the society, election to fellowship constitutes recognition by one's peers of an individual's outstanding contributions to physics.

The society cited Weinstein for his applications of the diamond anvil cell to semiconductor physics and experimental studies of the effects of pressure on vibrational, optical and phase-transition phenomena in semiconductors.

Weinstein conducts research in high-pressure and optical properties of tetrahedral crystalline semiconductors, semiconductor heterostructures and amorphous semiconductors.

In 1994, he co-chaired the sixth international Conference on High-Pressure Semiconductor Physics in Vancouver.

He is the author of 84 scientific publications and has given numerous talks at national and international scientific conferences.

Weinstein's work has been funded by Xerox Corp., the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. He also was the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.

A faculty member since 1987, Weinstein previously was research scientist at Xerox Corp. and an assistant professor of physics at Purdue University. He also conducted research at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany.

Weinstein received his doctoral degree in physics from Brown University and graduated from the University of Rochester.

He lives in Williamsville.