Sheldon Schultz

Sheldon "Shelly" Schultz (January 21, 1933 – January 31, 2017) was an American physicist, who was a professor at University of California, San Diego. Best known for his contributions to the discovery of metamaterials and negative-index media, he served as the Director of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at UCSD from 1990 to 2000.

Biography Sheldon Schultz was born on January 21, 1933 in New York City. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School, he received bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1954. He pursued his doctoral studies in physics at Columbia University under the supervision of Polykarp Kusch and William Lichten, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1960. In the same year, he joined the Department of Physics at University of California, San Diego as one of the founding faculty members.