The author is a well-known condensed matter physicist who has published 170 papers, several review articles and book chapters. He has edited a recent book “Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites?, Kluwer Academic Press, 2004. He also edited the neutron scattering section of the Encyclopedic book “Scattering: Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Pure and Applied Science, Ed. R. Pike and P. Sabatier, Academic Press (2002).