Norton Lang

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Norton Lang (born July 5, 1940 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American physicist .

Lang received an AB in 1962 and an AM in 1965 at Harvard University and a PhD in physics there in 1968. From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Research Physicist at the University of California . In the same year he switched to IBM and continued to research there in the field of electronic structures. From 1984 to 1993 he was a manager at IBM 's Electron Structure Theory Group. For his contributions to the understanding of electron gas, he and Walter Kohn received the Davisson-Germer Prize in 1977 .

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  1. ^ Bio Norton Lang. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; accessed on September 18, 2013 (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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aip.org
  2. ↑ Dr. Walter Kohn named co-winner of the Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 14, 2013 ; accessed on September 18, 2013 (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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / libraries.ucsd.edu
  3. ^ Davisson-Germer Prize. Retrieved September 18, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Norton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago