June L. Matthews
professor
Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Poland
Biography
Professor Matthews received her B.A. in Physics from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, in 1960 and her Ph.D. from MIT in 1967. After postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Rutgers University, New Jersey, she joined the MIT faculty in 1973. She has been a member of numerous MIT committees, including the Presidential Task Force on Student Life and Learning, and has chaired the Committee on Curricula and the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid. Professor Matthews served as Academic Officer in the Physics Department between 1994 and 1998. From 2000-06 she served as Director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science.
Research Interest
"Professor Matthews' research interests are in within the area of Intermediate-energy nuclear physics with electromagnetic and hadronic probes—experiments at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center and the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. Her work also involves: studies of the few-nucleon problem; inelastic processes in the neutron-proton system; dynamics of meson scattering and charge exchange; and short-range, high-momentum, mesonic, and quark effects in nuclei."
