David Awschalom
David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States)[1] is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors.
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 David Awschalom speaking at the 2013 Nobel Week Dialogue in Göteborg, Sweden | |
| Born | October 11, 1956 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign(BS) Cornell University(PhD) |
| Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Prize(2005) Agilent Europhysics Prize(2005) Turnbull Lectureship Award(2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics Spintronics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of California, Santa Barbara |
Awschalom graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a B.Sc. in physics. He received a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Cornell University.[2][3] He is the director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange[4] and a Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME).[3] He previously served as the director of the California Nanosystems Institute and was a professor in the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as an associated faculty member in the department of electrical and computer engineering. He has a Hirsch number of 96.
Awards and honors
- elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1992) [5]
- Oliver E. Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society (2005)[6]
- Agilent Europhysics Prize by the European Physical Society (2005)[7]
- elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)[8]
- elected member of National Academy of Sciences (2007)[9]
- Turnbull Lectureship Award from the Materials Research Society (2010)[10]
- elected member of National Academy of Engineering (2011)[11]
References
- "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- "David Awschalom". The Awschalom Group. University of California, Santa Barbara. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- "David Awschalom - People - Awschalom Group - Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering". pme.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- "David Awschalom Bio Page". Chicago Quantum Exchange. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- "[ EPS ]". www.physics.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- "David D. Awschalom". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- "David Awschalom". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- "David Turnbull Lectureship". www.mrs.org. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- "Professor David D. Awschalom". NAE Website. Retrieved 2019-10-27.