Marvin Cohen

Marvin Lou Cohen (born March 3, 1935 in Montreal ) is an American physicist who deals with theoretical solid-state physics.

Life

Cohen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (bachelor's degree), and from the University of Chicago , where he received his PhD in 1964. In 1963/4 he was a postdoc at Bell Laboratories . From 1964 he was in Berkeley, where he was first assistant professor, since 1966 associate professor and since 1969 professor. Since 1995 he has been University Professor for “Condensed matter physics and material science” there. He has also been a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1965 .

Cohen is one of the leading scientists in "ab initio" calculations of the electronic structure of solids, which he also used to predict the properties of novel materials. With his group, he investigated a wide variety of solid-state systems, such as nanotubes , quantum dots , fullerenes and high-temperature superconductors .

Cohen has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1980 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993, the American Philosophical Society since 2003 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1997 . He was a Sloan Research Fellow in 1965 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978 and 1990. In 1979 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and in 1994 the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society , of which he is a fellow and of which he was president in 2005. In 1981 he received a DoE award for solid state physics and in 1991 the Certificate of Merite from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . In 2001 he received the National Medal of Science . In 2005 he was President of the American Physical Society. In 2011 he was awarded the Dickson Prize in Science , in 2003 the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology and in 2014 the Von Hippel Award from the Material Research Society . For 2017 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute .

Since 2016 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

Fonts

• Looking back and ahead in condensed matter physics , Physics Today, June 2006.
• Novel materials from theory , Nature Vol. 338, 1989, p. 291.
• Predicting new solids and superconductors , Science, Vol. 234, 1986, p. 549.
• with Volker Heine , James C. Phillips : Quantum mechanics of materials , Scientific American, June 1982.
• with JR Chelikowsky : Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Semiconductors. Springer, 1988, 2012

Web links

• Homepage
• Biography at the APS
• Literature by and about Marvin Cohen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Web of Science Predicts 2016 Nobel Prize Winners. (No longer available online.) In: ipscience.thomsonreuters.com. September 21, 2016, archived from the original on September 21, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.