Arthur F. Hebard received his undergraduate degree in physics from Yale University in 1962 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1971.

In 1996 Hebard moved to the University of Florida where he is currently a distinguished Professor of Physics specializing in the study of magnetism in thin films and at thin film interfaces of complex oxides and semiconductors.

In 1972 Hebard became a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories where he specialized in research on thin-film superconductors. This work included the development of a two-coil technique to measure the magnetic penetration length, frequency-dependent studies of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in two-dimensional superconductors and the determination of magnetic field driven superconductor-insulator transitions. His collaborative paper titled " Superconductivity at 18K in potassium-doped C60" by Hebard et al. [Nature 350, 600(1991)] was listed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Science Watch as the research paper most frequently cited in 1991.

Hebard is a Fellow of the APS and AAAS. He is coauthor on more than 220 peer-reviewed papers, and currently serves as an Associate editor for Reviews of Modern Physics.   

1.“ Phase Transitions of Dirac Electrons in Bismuth” , Lu Li, J. G. Checkelsky, Y. S. Hor, C. Uher, A. F. Hebard, R. J. Cava, N. P. Ong Science 25(321), 547 (2008).

2.“ Colossal magnetocapacitance and scale-invariant dielectric response in phase-separated manganites” , Ryan P. Rairigh, Guneeta Singh-Bhalla, Sefaatin Tongay, Tara Dhakal, Amlan Biswas and Arthur F. Hebard, Nature Physics 3, 551 (2007).

3." Weak localization correction to the anomalous Hall effect in polycrystalline Fe films” , P. Mitra, R. Misra, A.F. Hebard, K. A. Muttalib and P. Woelfle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046804 (2007).

4.“ Trapped electromagnetic modes and scaling in the transmittance of perforated metal films” , S. Selcuk, K. Woo, D.B. Tanner, A.F. Hebard, A. G. Borisov and S. V. Shabanov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067403 (2006).

5.“ Metal-Insulator-Like Behavior in Semimetallic Bismuth and Graphite” , Xu Du, Shan-Wen Tsai, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Arthur F. Hebard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 166601 (2005).

holds 10 patents.