Laura H. Greene is the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Oersted Medal. The Oersted Medal recognizes her outstanding, widespread, and lasting impact on the teaching of physics and cites “her significant contributions to physics in the area of novel quantum materials and her ongoing passionate commitment to physics education, diversity, equity and inclusion with her work to engage curious young scientists and physics educators at all levels in the wonders of quantum materials.”
Greene is the Chief Scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Marie Krafft Professor of Physics at Florida State University. She was previously a Swanlund and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her undergraduate studies were at The Ohio State University, and after receiving her PhD at Cornell University, she was a postdoc at Bell Labs and then a member of staff at Bellcore....
