Dr. Manfred Jericho

Manfred Jericho, Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, has gained a high international reputation as an inventive and careful condensed-matter experimentalist who has made timely and incisive contributions to a variety of subjects. He has chosen problems for their intrinsic interest rather than for their convenience, and has devised the equipment and techniques needed for the experimental resolution of conflicts between theory and experiment, and among theories. While his earlier work concentrated on the study of electron-phonon interactions and of charge-density waves, he has more recently made valuable contributions in the fields of scanning-tunneling and atomic-force microscopy. His elegant pioneering studies of the elastic properties of biological membranes promise to revolutionize the understanding of these materials.