Michael L. Norton

Biography

Michael Norton studied Chemistry at Louisiana State University, Shreveport campus, where he obtained a BS degree in 1977.  He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Arizona State Univeristy in 1982 under the direction of William Glaunsinger studying two dimensional mixed metal oxides.  He then performed postgraduate research as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electronic Materials Branch of the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, California.  As an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, he developed electrochemical methods for oxide superconductor synthesis, before coming to Marshall in 1991.