Edward Wolf is professor of physics at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He is the author of more than one hundred refereed papers in condensed matter physics, with emphasis on electron tunneling spectroscopy. He obtained his PhD in physics from Cornell University and served as senior physicist at Eastman Kodak Research Labs, professor of physics at Iowa State University, head of the Physics Department at Polytechnic University, and program director in Condensed Matter Physics at the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Gerald Arnold received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1977. He was a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame from 1979 to 2012. He is currently an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Michael Gurvitch is professor of physics at Stony Brook University. His research interests include physics of metals, superconductivity (low- and high-temperature), and phase transitions. From 1990 to 1994, he was a director of the Institute for Interface Phenomena (IIP) at Stony Brook University. Prior to that, from 1979 to 1989, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs, where, among other activities, he and his coworkers developed the technology of refractory Josephson tunnel junctions, which is the subject of this book.
John Zasadzinski is a physics professor and the Paul and Suzi Schutt Endowed Chair of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He received his PhD in physics in 1980 from Iowa State University. He has held various positions in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Prof. Zasadzinski is the author of more than 130 articles and book chapters and is currently affiliated with Fermi National Laboratory, working on Nb-based superconducting RF cavities.