Paul Hansma
- Education:
- B.A. 1967 New College, Sarasota, FL
- M.A. 1968 University of California, Berkeley
- Ph.D. 1972 University of California, Berkeley
- Academic Appointments:
- 1972-76 Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA - 1976-80 Associate Professor,
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA - 1980-present Professor,
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA - 1994-1997 Co-Chair of Physics Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
- Honors and Awards:
- 1964 Presidential Scholar (presented by President Johnson)
- 1967-71 National Science Foundation Fellowship,
- 1975-77 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
- 1983 Professor of the Year, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1988 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1988 International Advisory Committee, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
- 1989 Fellow, American Physical Society, November
- 1989-present Editorial Board, Nanotechnology
- 1990 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1990-93 Executive Committee, Division of Chemical Physics, APS
- 1991 Paul E. Klopsteg Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers
- 1993 Max Planck Research Award
- 2000 American Physical Society, Biological Physics Prize
- 2004 Fellow to the Institute of Physics
- Professional Activities:
- Member, Active Life Technologies
- Life Member, American Physical Society
- Member, American Chemical Society
