Robert Shelton

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Professor Emeritus
Phone: 530-752-1500
Email: rns.shelton@gmail.com

Personal Professional Website: https://physics.ucdavis.edu/directory/faculty/robert-shelton

Research Interests:

Condensed Matter Experiment
Superconductivity, Magnetism, Novel Materials

Research Areas

Career History

  • Statistical Analyst, Social Ecology Laboratory School of Medicine Stanford University, 1970-1972
  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1975
  • Postdoctoral Research Physicist, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1975-1976
  • Assistant Research Physicist, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1976-1978
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Iowa State University, 1978-1981
  • Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Iowa State University, 1981-1984
  • Guest Scientist, Kernforschungsanlage, Summer 1981
  • Visiting Professor, Department de Physique de la Matière Condensée Université de Genève, 1983-1984
  • Professor, Department of Physics, Iowa State University, 1984-6/1987
  • Professor, Department of Physics University of California, Davis, 1987-2001
  • Chair, Department of Physics University of California, Davis, 1987-1990
  • Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Davis, 1990-1996
  • Vice Provost for Research, University of California Office of President, 1996-2001

Honors

  • Member, American Physical Society
  • Elected to Sigma Xi, Science Honorary: 1987
  • California Science & Technology Fellow
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Voted Outstanding Instructor by Physics Graduate Students: 1983
  • Invited to Nominate for the Nobel Prize in Physics: 1992, 1998
  • Elected Fellow, American Physical Society: 1995
  • Honorary Doctor of Science, Iowa State University, 2011