Lu Jeu Sham
Lu Jeu Sham (born April 28, 1938 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese - American physicist who deals with theoretical solid-state physics and quantum optics .
Sham graduated from the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and Imperial College London (ARCS degree in 1960) and received his doctorate in theoretical solid-state physics from the University of Cambridge in 1963 . He was then at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), from 1966 Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine and from 1967 to 1968 reader at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1968 he became associate professor and from 1974 professor at UCSD, where he was dean of natural sciences from 1985 to 1989.
He is particularly known for the development of density functional theory with Walter Kohn (Kohn-Sham equation). He contributed to the solution of the band gap problem (underestimation of the band gap of insulators by the density functional theory) and investigated the optical properties of semiconductor structures. Most recently he has dealt with the optical control of electron spins in quantum dots in the context of quantum information processing in spintronics .
In 1978 he was visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, in 1998 Miller visiting professor in Berkeley and in 2001 CN Yang visiting professor at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. In 1983/84 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and received a Humboldt Research Award . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences . He is also a member of the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China (Taiwan). In 2004 he received the Willis E. Lamb Prize .
He chaired the semiconductor section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics .
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- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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| SURNAME | Sham, Lu Jeu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hong Kong |