Alan Mark Portis (July 17, 1926 – September 6, 2010Death notice. Alan M. Portis, Physics Today, March 4, 2011. American Institute of Physics.) was an American solid-state physicist and founder of the Berkeley Physics Laboratory.
Career Alan Portis was the dean of engineering at Berkeley as well as an engineering professor. He was an early researcher in electron paramagnetic resonance. He also founded the Berkeley Physics Laboratory."Use of the Berkeley Physics Laboratory to Teach an Advanced Physics Course". The Physics Teacher. James David Logan. Mar 73. Vol. 11 issue 3. pp. 147–149. For the development of laboratory courses and curricula at UC Berkeley, he received the Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers."Scientists Decry a Slick New Packaging of Creationism". William J. Bennnetta. The Science Teacher. May 1987. pp. 36–43 (43). Portis was the doctoral advisor of the 2000 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry Alan J. Heeger,Nobel laureates, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley. as well as Nai Phuan Ong and Myron Salamon, both of whom were elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.
Portis was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1965.AAAS Annual Elections, Science, 22 August 1980: Vol. 209 no. 4459, pp. 895–915 Portis was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February 1976.AAAS Council Meeting, 1976 . Science, 16 April 1976: Vol. 192 no. 4236, pp. 277–281. He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Portis was also the first director of Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, and one of the founders of the Search for Excellence in Science and Mathematics (SESAME) Group at UC Berkeley.
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