David R. Smith Shares Descartes Award for Material that Reverses Light’s Properties

David R. Smith, a physicist formerly at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded the European Union’s Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research for developing at UCSD a new class of composite materials with unusual physical properties that scientists theorized might be possible, but had never before been able to produce in nature.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news8688.html">David R. Smith Shares Descartes Award for Material that Reverses Light’s Properties</a></p> <p>David R. Smith, a physicist formerly at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded the European Union’s Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research for developing at UCSD a new class of composite materials with unusual physical properties that scientists theorized might be possible, but had never before been able to produce in nature.</p>