Tony Heinz


Tony F. Heinz is an American physicist.
Heinz studied at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics. From 1983 to 1995 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. He was a professor at Columbia University and is now a professor at Stanford University.
In 2008 he earned the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. In 1996 he earned the Humboldt Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Heinz is one of the most cited scientists. Since 2019, the media group Clarivate counts him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize.
His research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy and thus investigates dynamics at surfaces. His group investigates electronic and optical properties of a few atoms of thin two-dimensional systems.

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