Scott, James Floyd

James Floyd Scott (Beverly, New Jersey, USA, May 4,1942) physicist (Ph.D.), Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
He was born in the USA and later lived in Australia, but since 1999 has been living in Cambridge, England. After high school graduation at a state school in a village in New Jersey he enrolled at Harvard and received his degree (BA) in 1963. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Ohio State University at age 23 in high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, and after 6 years at Bell telephone Laboratories' Quantum Electronics research Department (Murray Hill and Holmdel, New Jersey) he was appointed full Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado (Boulder) at age 29 and elected Fellow of the American Physical Society at age 31.
At Colorado he established an experimental research program on ferroelectrics, mainly using laser spectroscopy. He also served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research. He had sabbatical stays at Edinburgh, Oxford (1976-7) and Paris (1989-90).
In 1986 he founded the company Symetrix Corporation to produce ferroelectric thin-film random access memories (FRAMs) andother "integrated ferroelectrics" (ferroelectric thin films integrated onto Si or GaAs computer chips), for which Symetrix and its licensee, Matsushita, won the
1994 Product of the Year Award from the Japan Electronics Industry Association.
In 1991 he moved to Australia as Dean of Applied Science at RMIT
(Melbourne) and in 1995 to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney as Dean of Science. 1997 was spent as the SONY Corp. Chair of Science in Yokohama and as a Humboldt Prize-winner in Germany.
In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Ferroics at Cambridge University and im 2009 a Director of Research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. He won a Monkasho Prize from Japan in 2001, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2008, and received the MRS gold Medal
(USA) in 2008.
At Cambridge his work has been primarily on multiferroic magnetoelectrics and on nano-domains. Author of more than 400 journal publications with 23,000 citations, he has a Hirsch citation H-index of 66 and has authored five books, the best known of which ("Ferroelectric Memories", Springer, Heidelberg 2000) has been translated into Chinese (Rsinghua Press, Beijing 2004) and Japanese (Springer-Japan, Tokyo 2003) and cited 3000 times.

Most relevant works in the field of ferroelectrics and phase transitions:

Renowned papers (500+ citations): 7

Scott J F, Ferroelectric Memories (Springer, Heidelberg, 2000); Times
cited: 3008
Scott J F and De Araujo C A, Ferroelectric Memories, SCIENCE 246,
1400-1405 (1989); Times Cited: 2895
De Araujo C A P, Cuchiaro J D, McMillan L D, Scott M C, and Scott J F, Fatigue-free Ferroelectric Capacitors with Platinum Electrodes, NATURE 374,
627-629 (1995); Times Cited: 1731
Eerenstein W, Mathur N D, and Scott J F, Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials; NATURE 442, 759-765 (2006); Times Cited: 1303
Auciello O, Scott J F, Ramesh R, The physics of ferroelectric memories, PHYSICS TODAY 51, 22-27 (1998); Times Cited: 754
Dawber M, Rabe K M, and Scott J F; Physics of thin-film ferroelectric oxides, REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 77, 1083-1130 (2005); Times cited: 601
Scott J F, Soft-Mode Spectroscopy - Experimental Studies of Structural Phase Transitions, REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 46, 83-128 (1974); Times
Cited: 508
Scott J F, Ferroelectric Memories, FERROELECTRICS REVIEW 1, 1-129 (1999); Times cited: 421
Fleury P A, Scott J F, and Worlock J M, Soft Phonon Modes and the 110K Phase transition in SrTiO3, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 21, 16-19 (1968); Times
cited: 408
Scott J F, Applications of Modern Ferroelectrics; SCIENCE 315, 954-959 (2007); Times cited: 388
Scott J F, Araujo C A, Melnick B M, et al., Quantitative Measurement of Space-charge Effects in Lead-Zirconate Titanate Memories, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 70, 382-388 (1991); Times Cited: 361
Duiker H M, Beale P D, Scott J F, et al., Fatigue and Switching in Ferroelectric Memories - Theory and Experiment, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 68, 5783-5791 (1990): Times Cited: 342
Scott J F and Porto S P S, Longitudinal and Transverse Lattice Vibrations in Quartz, PHYSICAL REVIEW 161, 903-910 (1967); Times cited: 271
Scott J F, Kammerdiner L, Parris M, et al., Switching Kinetics of Lead Zirconate Titanate Submicron Thin-Film Memories, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 64, 787-792 (1988); Times Cited: 255

(September 2011)