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John H. Weaver
Donald B. Willett Professor, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Physics
Office 262 Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
Telephone 217-244-3528 Fax 217-333-2736
Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801
Professor Weaver received his B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Missouri in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Iowa State University/Ames Laboratory USDOE in 1972. He was on the staff of the Synchrotron Radiation Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1982 when he moved to the University of Minnesota. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 2000, and served as head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering until 2003.
Weaver is a Fellow of the APS, the AVS and the AAAS. In 1994-95 he held the Amundson Professorship at Minnesota and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Distinguished U.S. Scientist Award to work at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin. He was also a University Professor at Tohoku University. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society Kan Tong Po Professorship at the University of Hong Kong. Research & Development Magazine named him their Scientist of the Year in 1997, and Iowa State University recognized him with its Distinguished Achievement Citation in 1998. In 1999, he was Chief Judge for Singapore's National Science Talent Search, and he received the Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society ["for his seminal contributions to the atomic-level understanding of thin-film growth, interfacial interactions and etching"]. He gave the Peter Winchell Lecture at Purdue University in 2000 and the Kodak Distinguished Lecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003. He was named the Donald B. Willett Professor at the University of Illinois in 2003.
Weaver's research activities focus on the physics and chemistry of surfaces, interfaces, and nanostructures. He is the author of ~475 refereed papers, including 21 chapters and monographs on valence state photoemission, metal/semiconductor interfaces, high temperature superconductors, fullerenes, semiconductor etching, nanostructured materials and buffer-layer-assisted growth.