Gerald D. Mahan

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Gerald Dennis Mahan (born November 24, 1937 in Portland , Oregon ) is an American theoretical physicist who works in the field of solid state physics .

Life

Mahan studied physics at Harvard University until 1959 . From 1959 to 1961 he was a Predoctoral Fellow of the National Science Foundation . In 1964 he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley . He then worked at General Electric 's research and development center until 1967 . In 1967 he moved to the University of Oregon , where he became an associate professor of physics. From 1968 to 1970 he was a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). From 1973 to 1984 he was Professor of Physics at Indiana University Bloomington and from 1984 to 2001 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . He has also been a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 1984 . In 2001 he became a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University .

The main subject of Mahan's research was theoretical solid-state physics, especially the many-particle theory of insulators, semiconductors and metals and their interaction with electromagnetic radiation of different frequencies. In addition to the purely theoretical work, the development of electronic components was another focus of his work, including the development of varistors based on zinc oxide (ZnO). In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, he published several monographs and a textbook on applied mathematics.

In 1974 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1995 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2005 . In 2008 he was accepted as an external member of the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg .

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Magazines

  • GD Mahan: Excitons in degenerate semiconductors . In: Physical Review . tape 153 , no. 3 , 1967, p. 882-889 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.153.882 .
  • GD Mahan: Excitons in metals: infinite hole mass . In: Physical Review . tape 163 , no. 3 , 1967, p. 612-617 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.163.612 .
  • DG Mahan: Theory of photoemission in simple metals . In: Physical Review B . tape 2 , no. 11 , 1970, pp. 4334-4350 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevB.2.4334 .
  • GD Mahan: Collective excitations in x-ray spectra of metals . In: Physics Review B . tape 11 , no. 12 , 1975, p. 4814-4824 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevB.11.4814 .
  • GD Mahan, AA Lucas: Collective vibrational modes of adsorbed CO . In: Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 68 , 1978, pp. 1344 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.435952 .
  • GD Mahan, LM Levinson, HR Philipp: Theory of conduction in ZnO varistors . In: Journal of Applied Physics . tape 50 , 1979, pp. 2799 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.326191 .
  • GD Mahan: Quantum transport equation for electric and magnetic fields . In: Physics Reports . tape 145 , no. 5 , 1987, pp. 251-318 , doi : 10.1016 / 0370-1573 (87) 90004-4 .
  • GD Mahan, JO Sofo: The best thermoelectric . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA . tape 93 , no. 15 , 1996, pp. 7436-7439 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.93.15.7436 .
  • MV Simkin, GD Mahan: Minimum thermal conductivity of superlattices . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 84 , no. 5 , 2000, pp. 927-930 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.84.927 .

Books

  • Gerald D. Mahan: Many-particle physics . 3. Edition. Springer, New York 2000, ISBN 978-1-4419-3339-3 .
  • Gerald D. Mahan, KR Subbaswamy: Local density theory of polarizability . Springer, New York 1990, ISBN 978-1-4899-2488-9 .
  • Gerald D. Mahan: Applied Mathematics . Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, New York 2002, ISBN 0-306-46683-X .
  • Gerald D. Mahan: Quantum mechanics in a nutshell . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-13713-1 .
  • GD Mahan: Condensed matter in a nutshell . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-14016-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mahan, Gerald D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahan, Gerald Dennis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland, Oregon