Jerzy Bernholc

Physics educator

Born Feb. 12, 1952, Szczecin, Poland; came to U.S., 1976; son of David and Irena; married Alissa (Seligman); children: Stuart Jay, Judith Ilana.

Education: Ph.D., Lund University (Sweden), 1978.

Career: postdoctoral fellow, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights (NY), 1978-80; senior physicist, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Clinton (NJ), 1980-86; associate prof., 1986-90, prof., 1990 -, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Author: co-editor, Impurities, Defects and Diffusion in Semiconductors: Bulk and Layered Structures, 1990; co-editor, Clusters and CIuster-Assembled Materials, 1991; over 100 articles in professional journals.

Member of: fellow American Physical Society; Materials Research Society.

Honors: Sigma Xi; award, King Oscar the II-nd (Sweden), 1978; Outstanding Innovation award, IBM Research Division, 1979; Alumni Outstanding Research Award, North Carolina State University, 1992.

Affiliation: Independent. Jewish.

Languages: Polish, Swedish, English.

Hobbies: athletics, reading, music.

Office: North Carolina State University, Department of Physics, Box 8202, Raleigh, NC 27695.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996