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James D. Livingston
Senior Lecturer
BEP Engineering Physics, Cornell, 1952
PhD Applied Physics, Harvard, 1956
Room 16-206, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-0059 (phone)
jdliv@mit.edu
In the past, Prof. Livingston has performed research on ferromagnetic,
superconducting, and mechanical properties of metals and alloys.
He is now primarily occupied with teaching and writing.
Selected Publications
"Neodymium-Iron-Boron Alloys," Encyclopedia of Advanced
Materials, Pergamon (1994).
"Refractory
and Silicide Laves Phases," MRS Symposium Proc. 322:395 (1994).
"Paramagnetic
Anisotropy of High Tc Superconductors," J. Appl. Phys. 64:5806
(1988) (with H. R. Hart and W. P. Wolf).
"Magnetic Properties
of Metals and Alloys," Chapter 29 of Physical Metallurgy, R.
W. Cahn and P. Haasen, eds., Elsevier (1995).
Driving
Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets (a popular-science
book), Harvard University Press (April 1996).
Electronic Properties of
Engineering Materials, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
"100 Years of Magnetic Memories," Scientific American
279, no. 5 (Nov. 1998), 106–111.
"The Force IS With Us," Brittanica Yearbook
of Science and the Future 1999, 132–147
Prof. Livingston is the author of a series of songs and
poems, written to go along with the 3.10 textbook— the
subject which morphed into 3.024. (At the Wulff lecture a
few years ago, the audience sang one of the songs.) All his
songs and poems have been saved from complete obscurity by
Walter Smith of Haverford, who recently put them on physicssongs.org,
which you might want to consult if you ever feel a need to
sing about Ohm's Law, ferromagnetism, k-space, or other topics
seldom put to music.
2006–2007 Teaching Involvements
Fall 2006 3A08 Freshmen Seminar—Attraction and Repulsion:
The Magic of Magnets
Prof. Livingston and his wife, Sherry H. Penney, recently
co-authored A
Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights,
a history of an activist and abolitionist, who happens to
be Prof. Livingston's great-grandmother. See Tech
Talk for more about the book which reveals that Martha
Wright was outspoken, sensible, perceptive, and witty.
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