Roger W. Boom Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Additional Experience Summary

Contact Information

915 Engineering Research Building 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/263-5026

Departments

• Engineering Physics

Program Affiliations

• Applied Superconductivity Center

Education

• PhD 1958, Physics, University of California-Los Angeles

Fields of Interest

• superconductive magnetic energy storage for electric utilities

Additional Experience

Atomics International Company, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Nuclear Physics Institute at the University of Bonn (Germany)

Summary

Professor Boom's research interests are in applied superconductivity, including developing large magnetic systems that use cryostable conductors of Al and NbTi cooled in superfluid helium.