Michael Gurvitch

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.