Brent Fultz

Brent Fultz is an American physicist and materials scientist and one of the world's leading authorities on statistical mechanics, diffraction, and phase transitions in materials. Fultz is the Barbara and Stanley Rawn Jr. Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his research in materials physics and materials chemistry, and for establishing the importance of phonon entropy to the phase stability of materials. Additionally, Fultz oversaw the construction of the wide angular-range chopper spectrometer (ARCS) instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source and has made advances in phonon measuring techniques.

He is the author of two graduate level textbooks, ''Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials'' (with James M. Howe, Springer, 2001; 4th ed., 2013) on diffractometry of materials, and ''Phase Transitions in Materials'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) on phase transitions in materials. Provided by Wikipedia