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Dr. Cynthia R. McIntyre (born 1960) is a theoretical physicist and former Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness. Her research focuses on the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures.[1] She was the second Black woman to receive a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
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Cynthia R. McIntyre | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter A. Wolff |
McIntyre was born in 1960[1] grew up in San Antonio, Texas, the only child of two school teachers.[3] She received her PhD in physics in 1990 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Her research focus is condensed matter physics, and she completed a dissertation "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" advised by Peter A. Wolff.[4] When she was a graduate student, McIntyre co-founded the National Conference of Black Physics Students and organized the first NCBPS conference.[5] For this work, she became one of the first recipients of the MIT's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award in 1995.[3] She continues to be involved[6] in this organization.
McIntyre then went on to serve as the Commonwealth Professor of Physics at George Mason University.[7]
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