László Mihály received his PhD in 1972 from Eötvös University, after which he joined the Central Research Institute for Physics in Budapest. He has performed research at the Institute Laue-Langevine in Grenoble, the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1989. Michael C. Martin received his PhD in 1995 from SUNY Stony Brook. He has since been performing condensed matter physics research at the High Flux Beam Reactor facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory.