Robert J. Birgeneau

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Robert Joseph Birgeneau (born March 25, 1942 in Toronto ) is a Canadian physicist who works in experimental solid-state physics.

Birgeneau studied at the University of Toronto (Bachelor in 1963) and received his PhD from Yale University in 1966 . He then worked as a post-doc at Oxford University and, from 1968, a scientist at Bell Laboratories . From 1975 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1991 to 2000 he was Dean of Science there and from 1988 to 1991 head of the physics faculty. From 2000 to 2004 he was President of the University of Toronto and from 2004 Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley , where he is also a professor.

He investigated, among other things, one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets with neutron scattering, which showed a good agreement with the exact theory of Michael E. Fisher , and two-dimensional antiferromagnets.

Since 1968 he has been a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory . In 1974 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1981 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2004 to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2006 to the American Philosophical Society . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2001 . In 1987 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and in 2000 the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize . He received the IUPAP Prize for Magnetism. For 2016 he was awarded the Vannevar Bush Award by the United States National Science Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgeneau, Dingle, Hutchings, Gen Shirane , Holt Spin correlations in a 1 dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet , Physical Review Letters Vol. 26, 1971, p. 718
  2. ↑ Birgeneau, Guggenheim, Shirane Physical Review Letters Vol. 22 1969, p. 720, Birgeneau, Als-Nielsen, Shirane Physical Review B, Vol. 16, 1977, p. 280
  3. ↑ Member History: Robert J. Birgeneau. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 2, 2018 (with a short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Birgeneau, Robert J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birgeneau, Robert Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto