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William Arthur Little (born November 17, 1930, in Adelaide, South Africa) is a US-American experimental solid-state physicist.
Little earned his Ph.D. in 1955 at Rhodes University in South Africa under the supervision of John Betteley Birks. He obtained another Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Glasgow under Samuel Crow Curran, with a dissertation titled "The Overhauser effect in solids".[1]. From 1956 to 1958, he worked as a Fellow of the National Research Council of Canada at the University of British Columbia. In 1958, he became an Assistant Professor, and from 1965 until his retirement in 1994, he served as a Professor at Stanford University.
His research interests include low-temperature physics and superconductivity (organic superconductors, ceramic high-temperature superconductors), magnetic resonance, organic fluorescence, phase transitions, chemical physics, and the theory of neural networks. The Little-Parks effect is named after him and his doctoral student Roland D. Parks[2]
He is a U.S. citizen and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1964/65, he was a Guggenheim Fellow (and a visiting professor at the University of Geneva), and from 1959 to 1962, he was a Sloan Research Fellow.
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- ^ Little, W.A. (1957). "Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section B The Overhauser Effect in Solids". Proc. Phys. Soc. B. 70: 785. doi:10.1088/0370-1301/70/8/308. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ Little, W.A.; Parks, R.D. (1 July 1962). "Observation of Quantum Periodicity in the Transition Temperature of a Superconducting Cylinder". Physical Review Letters. 9 (1). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.9.9. Retrieved 4 January 2024.