Manuel Cardona

Cardona was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1934. After obtaining a Masters in physics in 1955 from University of Barcelona Cardona was awarded a fellowship to work as a graduate student at Harvard University starting in 1956. Concomitantly he became scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, where he became emeritus in 2000. == Distinctions and honors ==

Besides receiving over at least 61 awards during his career, • 1984 Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science • 1984 Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of Sciences of Barcelona • 1987 Member, National Academy of Sciences of the USA • 1987 Grand Cross of Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain • 1988 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, named after the Crown Prince of Spain • 1991 Member, Academia Europaea • 1994 Max Planck Research Prize, shared with E. E. Haller, Berkeley • 1995 Corresponding Member, Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences • 1997 John Wheatley Award, American Physical Society • 1999 Ernst Mach Medal, Prague • 2001 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize • 2003 Matteucci Medal by the Accademia nazionale delle scienze, Italy • 2009 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada • 2011 Vernadsky Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine • 2012 Paul Klemens Award, Phonons Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. • 2012 Luis Federico Leloir Prize, Argentina ==Publications==

Cardona has authored over 1,300 scientific publications in international journals, ten monographs on solid state physics and co-authored a textbook on semiconductors. Since 1972, Cardona has served on the Board of Editors of at least seven journals, including being the Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Communications from 1992 to 2005. Some of his works include: • Manuel Cardona: Modulation Spectroscopy, Academic Press 1969. Lib of Congress 55-12299 • Manuel Cardona, Gernot Günterodt and Roberto Merlin: Light Scattering in Solids I-IX (nine volumes) Springer Verlag; • Pere Bonnin: Manuel Cardona i Castro, Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, Barcelona 1998 • Peter Y. Yu and Manuel Cardona, Fundamentals of semiconductors, 4 editions 1996-2000, == Personal life ==

Cardona died in Stuttgart on 2 July 2014, where he lived since 1971 with his wife Inge Cardona (née Hecht). He held American, German and Spanish citizenship and had 3 children and 7 grandchildren. ==References==