Jagadeesh Moodera

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Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera is an American physicist of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory.

Born in Bangalore, India, he is considered the co-discoverer of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect with M. Jullière and T. Miyazaki. Besides its great fundamental interest, the TMR is the basis for MRAM devices and read heads used in hard disks. Moodera was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 "for pioneering and sustained contributions to the understanding of spin-polarized transport in solids." Before investigating ferromagnetic tunneling, Moodera worked for many years on spin-polarized tunneling in superconductor junctions along with Bob Meservey and Paul Tedrow.

Moodera attended Mysore University (B.S. and M.S.) and the Indian Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). He was briefly at West Virginia University before joining the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab staff at MIT in 1981. He is married and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

[edit] Reference

• J.S. Moodera, J. Nassar and G. Mathon, "Spin-Tunneling in Ferromagnetic Junctions," Annual Review of Materials Science 29: 381, 1999.
  

[edit] External links

• Faculty page at MIT.
• Research page at MIT.