Paul Chaikin
Paul Michael Chaikin (born November 14, 1945 in Brooklyn ) is an American physicist who studies solid-state physics, especially soft matter .
Chaikin graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received his doctorate in 1971 from the University of Pennsylvania under M. Anthony Jensen (and Alan J. Heeger ) ( Probing many body effects with superconductivity ). From 1972 he was Assistant Professor and 1980 Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1983 he became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1988 at Princeton University , from 2001 as Henry De Wolfe Smyth Professor of Physics. In 2005 he retired and became Silver Professor of Physics at the Center for Soft Condensed Matter Research at New York University .
He dealt with the most diverse areas of solid-state physics: superconductivity, magnetism, thermoelectricity, metal-insulator junctions, organic conductors, quasi-one-dimensional materials, thin metal films, colloids and colloidal crystals.
He was visiting professor at the University of Paris-Süd (1978/79), at the Institut Curie in Paris (1998/99) and from 1983 also at the Exxon Research Laboratories.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1984), the Institute of Physics (2004), the National Academy of Sciences (2004) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003). From 1977 to 1982 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1997/98 Guggenheim Fellow. For 2018 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize .
He has been married since 1977 and has two children
Fonts
- with Tom Lubensky Principles of condensed matter physics , Cambridge University Press 1995
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chaikin, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chaikin, Paul Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |