Elihu Abrahams
Elihu Abrahams (born April 3, 1927 in Port Henry (New York) , † October 18, 2018 in Los Angeles ) was an American solid-state physicist.
Abrahams grew up in New York City, attended Walden School and Brooklyn Tech. He studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1947 and a doctorate in 1952 with Charles Kittel (dissertation on ferromagnetic relaxation). From 1953 he conducted research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Research Assistant Professor) and from 1956 he was Assistant Professor and from 1964 Professor ( Bernard Serin Professor ) at Rutgers University . In 1999 he became director of the Center for Materials Theory there. After retiring, he became a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 .
From 1979 to 1982 he was President of the Aspen Center of Physics. From 1997 to 2000 he chaired their Board of Trustees. From 1982 to 1985 he was on the advisory board of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara ( Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics ).
Abrahams was visiting professor and visiting scholar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Collège de France , the University of Paris VI and in Orsay.
Among other things, he dealt with superconductivity (also high-temperature superconductivity), magnetism, phase transitions, strongly correlated electron systems (quantum mechanical many-body problem), disordered matter ( Anderson localization , hierarchical dynamics in glass-like systems).
Abrahams was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1987), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1964) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1976 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.
In 2019 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for pioneering research in the physics of disordered solid materials and jump direction (laudation).
Abrahams has been married to Geulah Greenblatt (a modern dance dancer, died 1996) since 1953 and has two sons.
Fonts (selection)
- as editor: 50 years of Anderson localization, 2 volumes, World Scientific 2010
- with Charles Kittel: Dipolar broadening of magnetic resonance lines in magnetically diluted crystals. Physical Review, Vol. 90, 1953, p. 238
- with A. Miller: Impurity conduction at low concentrations, Physical Review, Volume 120, 1960, p. 745
- with T. Tsuneto: Time variation of the Ginzburg-Landau order parameter, Physical Review, Volume 152, 1966, p. 416
- with Philip Warren Anderson , DC Licciardello, TV Ramakrishnan : Scaling theory of localization: Absence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions, Physical Review Letters, Volume 42, 1979, p. 673
- with PW Anderson, PA Lee , TV Ramakrishnan: Quasiparticle lifetime in disordered two-dimensional metals, Physical Review B, Volume 24, 1981, p. 6783
- with Richard G. Palmer , Daniel L. Stein , PW Anderson: Models of hierarchically constrained dynamics for glassy relaxation, Physical Review Letters, Volume 53, 1984, p. 958
- with CM Varma, Stefan Schmitt-Rink : Charge transfer excitations and superconductivity in “ionic” metals, Solid state communications, Volume 62, 1987, pp. 681-685
- with SV Kravchenko, MP Sarachik: Metallic behavior and related phenomena in two dimensions, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 73, 2001, p. 251
- with SY Savrasov, Gabriel Kotliar : Correlated electrons in δ-plutonium within a dynamical mean-field picture, Nature, Volume 410, 2001, pp. 793-795
- with Q. Si: Strong correlations and magnetic frustration in the high Tc iron pnictides, Physical Review Letters, Volume 101, 2008, p. 076401
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Date of death obituary in the New York Times , Jan. 6, 2019
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
- ↑ for pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity . Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for Abraham
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abrahams, Elihu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Henry (New York) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 2018 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |