John Fontanella
John Fontanella is a Physics Professor Emeritus at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. His research topics include elastic constants of materials and their variation with temperature and pressure (1968-1970); dielectric properties of materials and their variation with temperature and pressure; lattice dynamics (1970-1974); defects in alkaline earth fluorides primarily via electrical relaxation techniques; alkali halides, alkaline earth fluorides, diamond, crystalline semiconductors, quartz, arsenic trisulphide, zinc selenide, bismuth germanate, lanthanum trifluoride, lead fluoride, and cadmium fluoride; dielectric properties of fluids and plastic crystals concentrating on carbon tetrachloride and adamantane (1974-1980); fast ion conductors concentrating on ion conducting polymers; theoretical work on the nature of glass-forming materials (1980-2004); and capacitive energy storage focusing on the dielectric properties of polymers and polymer nanocomposites (2004-present).
In addition to writing The Physics of Basketball, Fontanella has published approximately 150 papers and has given about the same number of talks at conferences on condensed matter physics. The major topics were dielectric relaxation and electrical conductivity in materials.
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