IEEE UFFC Rayleigh Award
Rayleigh Award
The Rayleigh Award represents the highest honor for achievement within the UFFC Society in
the field of Ultrasonics. The achievement may be in technical innovations, research, education,
publications and related professional endeavors. Typically, the recipient will have demonstrated
these accomplishments over a sustained period of time.
John William Strutt
Third Baron Rayleigh
Discovery of argon
Rayleigh waves
Rayleigh scattering
Rayleigh criterion
Duplex Theory
Theory of Sound
Rayleigh flow
Rayleigh-Plesset equation
The Rayl
The 2013 IEEE UFFC Rayleigh Award winner is …….
Moises Levy
For outstanding fundamental contributions to the field of low
temperature superconductivity using bulk and surface wave
ultrasonics and for extensive service to the IEEE UFFC society
Moises Levy
Born 1930
Panama
1955 MSc Cal Tech
1962 PhD UCLA
1940
2013 Rayleigh
Award
1971 Professor
at U Wisconsin
2001 Publishes
“The Handbook”
Ultrasonic
investigations of
superconducting
materials
1980
2020
Moises Levy: Major Contributions
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Conducted systematic ultrasonic investigations of superconducting materials, rare
earth metals and iron-nickel film alloys
First investigations of the properties of type I and Type II superconductors,
including High Tc superconductors using bulk wave ultrasonics
First complete phase diagram of the heavy Fermion superconductor UPt3
determined from ultrasonic velocity measurements
First investigations of surface acoustic waves (SAWs)to study several types of
superconducting amorphous films, granular films, and High Tc films
Discovery of new real and virtual phase transitions in the rare earth metals
Development of frequency tunable SAW filters and dispersion lines using Giant
Magnetoelastic and also Giant Superconducting Piezoelectric Attenuation effects
discovered in his lab
Moises Levy: The Awards
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NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH, 1963 – 1964
Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Technion, 1983
University of Wisconsin Foundation Distinguished Research
Award, 1987
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and
Frequency Control Society, 1991 – 1992. He gave 42
colloquia and lectures in 13 States and 12 different
countries
IEEE CSC Max Swedlow Award, 2010
IEEE UFFC-S Distinguished Service Award. 2010
Fellow American Physical Society
Life Fellow IEEE
Fellow Acoustical Society of America
Moises Levy: The Service to UFFC
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Associated with UFFC-S and its progenitor the Sonics and
Ultrasonics Group since 1969
General Chairman of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposia in
Milwaukee (1974), in Atlanta (1983) and Co-Chair in
Honolulu (1990)
Served on the technical program committee of the IEEE
Ultrasonics Symposium from 1971 to 2005.
Chairman of the nominations committee of the IEEE Group
of Sonics and Ultrasonics (1976 – 1983)
Associate Editor, Transactions of the IEEE UFFC-S (19831991)
Representative of UFFC-S on the IEEE Council on
Superconductivity (CSC).
Moises Levy: “The Handbook”
Moises Levy: “The Serious Side”
2013 IEEE UFFC Rayleigh Award
Rayleigh
Elvis
Levy
For outstanding fundamental contributions to the field of low
temperature superconductivity using bulk and surface wave
ultrasonics and for extensive service to the IEEE UFFC society