[1][2] Art Hebard attended The Hotchkiss School and graduated with a BA in physics from Yale University in 1962.
He obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1971 under William M. Fairbank with thesis Search for fractional charge using low temperature techniques.
[3] After a spell as a research associate at Stanford, he became a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories.
He was awarded the 2008 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society,[4] and a co-recipient of the 2015 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize , also given by the American Physical Society, "For discovery and pioneering investigations of the superconductor-insulator transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions.
"[5] His research interests include thin-film physics, graphene, fullerenes, and fullerene derived compounds, superconductivity, dilute magnetic semiconductors, magnetism in thin films and at thin film interfaces, interface capacitance, magnetocapacitance of complex oxides and semiconductors.