Wilson Ho 何文程 Election Year 2014 Department of Physics & Astronomy
4129 Frederick Reines Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-4575, U.S.A. Tel: (949) 540-5599 / Fax: (949) 824-2174
Current Positions
Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and of the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Education
B.S. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1975)
M.S. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1975)
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1979)
Professional Experience
Member of the Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (1979-80)
Cornell University:
Assistant Professor of Physics (1980-85); Associate Professor of Physics (1985-91); Professor of Physics (1991-2000)
University of California, Irvine (2000-present):
Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and of Chemistry
Specialties
Nanoscience; Quantum Materials and Information Science; Surface Chemistry and Physics; Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging; Inelastic Electron Tunneling; Scanning Tunneling Microscopy; Femtosecond Laser and Ultrafast Phenomena; Instrumentation Development
Awards and Honors
Sigma Xi Awards (1975, 1979)
Wayne B. Nottingham Prize, Physical Electronics Conference (1979)
Victor K. LaMer Prize, Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (1980)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1981)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists (1997)
Bonn Chemistry Prize, Germany (2000)
UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Research (2005)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009)
Medard W. Welch Award, American Vacuum Society (2011)
150th Anniversary Jubilee Visiting Professor, Chalmers University, Sweden (2013)
Irving Langmuir Prize, American Physical Society (2013)
Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2013)
Academician, Academia Sinica, Republic of China (2014)
Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California Achievement Award (2017)
Joseph F. Keithley Award, American Physical Society (2017)