Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933 – October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics.

In the process her older brother Paul became separated and was transported on a British ship for women and children from Dunkirk to England.

[5] After spending a few weeks in Nice, the family took a train across the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain and stayed in Bilbao before sailing from Vigo to Cuba.

[4] Sarachik spent the next five and a half years in Cuba as a refugee, where she attended school and learned Spanish and English.

[6] In 1947, Sarachik and her family were granted visas to enter the United States and they moved to New York City.

[6] She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1950 and began studying at Barnard College the same year.

[6] Her doctoral work provided an important experimental test for BCS theory by showing how the magnetic field penetration depth in superconducting lead depended on temperature.

Sarachik showed that there was a one-to-one correspondence between the presence of local magnetic moments and the minimum of the resistance in metallic materials.

[12] Despite advice from mentors that becoming a housewife or part-time teacher might suit her better, Sarachik joined the physics department of the City College of New York as an assistant professor in 1964.

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.