Gabriel Aeppli

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Gabriel Aeppli (born November 25, 1956 in Zurich ) is a Swiss -American solid-state physicist .

Life

Aeppli moved to the United States with his father (a mathematician) shortly after he was born. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering in 1978 (he also has a bachelor's degree in mathematics) and his PhD in 1983. He was a research assistant at MIT and an industrial co-op student at IBM . From 1982 he was employed at Bell Laboratories , from 1993 as Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff . From 1996 to 2002 he was a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories in Princeton . From 2002 he was Quain Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL) and Director of the London Center for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL and Imperial College, which he co-founded.

He investigated quantum spin fluctuations and demonstrated their role in high-temperature superconductors.

In recent times he has mainly dealt with nanotechnology and its application in quantum informatics and medicine.

In 2005 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society , in 2003 the Neel Medal (Magnetism Prize of the IUPAP ), and in 2002 the Wolfson Research Award of the Royal Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2010 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2013 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2015 to the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Neutron Scattering from Random Ferromagnets, 1982
  • with Amit Dutta, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Diptiman Sen: Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Models, Cambridge University Press, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Institute of Physics
  2. ↑ Time Magazine 2006
  3. ↑ 2005 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Aeppli, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich