Daniel T. Pierce, NIST Fellow (Emeritus)

Daniel Pierce is a physicist working as a guest researcher in the Electron Physics Group in CNST. He received a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University, an M.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University (CT), and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University where he was also a Postdoctoral Research Associate for one year. Following three years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he joined the research staff at NBS/NIST in 1975. Pierce’s research has been in the area of surface physics with special emphasis on the development of spin-based measurements and their application to surface and thin film magnetism, such as imaging magnetization in magnetic nanostructures and measuring the interlayer coupling of magnetic multilayers. His work led to two "R&D 100" awards, the E. U. Condon and William P. Schlichter awards from NIST, Silver and Gold Medals from the Department of Commerce, and the Gaede-Langmuir Prize from the American Vacuum Society. He has three patents and over 170 publications and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the AVS. He is currently working on applying Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis (SEMPA) to new materials and devices in the CNST nanomagnetics program.