Myriam Paula Sarachik (1933 – 2021)

was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics. Sarachik's work was primarily in the field of low temperature condensed matter physics, in which she focused on molecular nanomagnets and novel phenomena in dilute two-dimensional electron systems. Some of her research sought to understand the metal-insulator transition, or the conditions under which an insulator can become a conductor. Experiments of this type must be performed near absolute zero. Sarachik also researched the transport and magnetic properties of semiconductors and quantum tunnelling.

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