![Douglas H Lowndes](/sites/default/files/styles/staff_profile_image_style/public/LowndesDouglasH.jpg?h=21fcf1e0&itok=l0xHxNs5)
For outstanding contributions to many areas of solid-state physics, including the electronic structure of metals, ultrarapid melting and solidification phenomena, pulsed-laser deposition and epitaxial film growth, high-temperature superconductivity, and beam-assisted processing of thin films and superlattices.