Paul C. Canfield, a scientist at Ames National Laboratory and Professor at Iowa State University, will be presented with the 2025 Frank H. Spedding Award for Research in Rare Earth Science on Sunday, June 15. The award will be presented at the 30th Rare Earth Research Conference which takes place June 15-19 at Argonne National Laboratory.
Canfield’s research is centered on the design, discovery, growth, and characterization of novel electronic and magnetic materials. He has made key contributions to the fields of superconductivity, heavy fermions, quantum criticality, quasicrystals, spin glasses, local-moment metamagnetism, and metal-to-insulator transitions. He has also helped to educate and train researchers on the rare earths and experimental, new-materials-physics throughout the world, emphasizing the need to tightly couple growth (often in single crystal form) and measurement of new materials.