John Perdew

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John Paul Perdew (born August 30, 1943 in Cumberland (Maryland) ) is an American solid-state physicist, known for innovations in density functional methods (DFT) with applications in solid-state physics , materials science and quantum chemistry .

Perdew attended Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1965 and received his doctorate in 1971 from Cornell University under John W. Wilkins. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Toronto with Sy Vosko until 1974 and then with David Langreth at Rutgers University until 1977 . In 1977 he became an assistant professor at Tulane University with a full professorship from 1982. Since 2013 he has been a professor at Temple University ( Laura H. Carnell Professor ) and founding director of the Center for Materials Theory there .

Perdew made important contributions to make density functional theory accurate enough for applications, for example, in materials science and quantum chemistry. The work Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple on the Generalized gradient approximation ( Generalized gradient approximation , GGA) for the exchange-correlation potential in the DFT 1996 from him, Kieron Burke, and Matthias Ernzerhof is the most cited physics publication for the years 1996 to 2010, was cited over 100,000 times by 2019. In 1981 he developed the self- interaction correction with Alex Zunger .

He was awarded the Clarivate Citation Laureate as a highly cited scholar in 2019 . He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2011 and a member of the International Academy of Molecular Sciences (2003). In 2012 he received the Materials Theory Award from the Materials Research Society . In 2015 he received a Humboldt Research Award . In 2007 he received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University. In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Fonts (selection)

  • with A. Zunger: Self-interaction correction to density-functional approximations for many-electron systems, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 23, 1981, p. 5048
  • with RG Parr, M. Levy, JL Balduz: Density-functional theory for fractional particle number: derivative discontinuities of the energy, Phys. Rev. Lett, Vol. 49, 1982, p. 1691
  • with LJ Sham, M. Schlüter: Density-functional theory of the energy gap, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 51, 1983, p. 1888
  • with M. Levy: Physical content of the exact Kohn-Sham orbital energies: band gaps and derivative discontinuities, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 51, 1983, p. 1884
  • Density-functional approximation for the correlation energy of the inhomogeneous electron gas, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 33, 1986, p. 8822
  • with W. Yue: Accurate and simple density functional for the electronic exchange energy: Generalized gradient approximation, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 33, 1986, p. 8800
  • with Y. Wang: Accurate and simple analytic representation of the electron-gas correlation energy, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 45, 1992, p. 13244
  • with JA Chevary, SH Vosko u. a .: Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 46, 1992, p. 6671
  • with M. Ernzerhof, K. Burke: Rationale for mixing exact exchange with density functional approximations, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 105, 1996, pp. 9982-9985
  • with Kieron Burke, Matthias Ernzerhof: Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 77, 1996, p. 3865
  • with K. Burke, Y. Wang: Generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation hole of a many-electron system, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 54, 1996, p. 16533
  • with J. Tao a. a .: Climbing the density functional ladder: Nonempirical meta-generalized gradient approximation designed for molecules and solids, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 91, 2003, p. 146401
  • with VN Staroverov, J. Tao a. a .: Comparative assessment of a new nonempirical density functional: Molecules and hydrogen-bonded complexes, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 119, 2003, pp. 12129-12137
  • with A. Ruzsinszky u. a .: Restoring the density-gradient expansion for exchange in solids and surfaces, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 100, 2008, p. 136406

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth dates and career dates according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_hn_query.humboldtianer_details?p_lang=en&p_externe_id=7000281195
personal data
SURNAME Perdew, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perdew, John Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Cumberland, Maryland