Steven G. Louie
Steven Gwon Sheng Louie , Chinese 雷 干 城 , Pinyin Léi Gānchéng (born March 26, 1949 in Guangzhou , Republic of China ) is an American physicist of Chinese origin who deals with theoretical solid-state physics and nanoscience .
Louie studied physics and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1972 and his PhD in physics in 1976. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM and in 1979 at Bell Laboratories . From 1979 to 1980 he was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ; In 1980 he became associate professor and 1984 professor of physics at Berkeley. He is also a researcher in the Materials Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .
He deals with ab initio pseudopotential calculations of the electronic structure of crystals, surfaces, interfaces and clusters, with quasiparticle excitations and optical excitations in solids, electron transport through individual molecules, electron correlation effects in solids and systems of reduced dimensions, nanotubes and nanostructures , Materials under high pressure, superconductivity.
Louie is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society . In 1980 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1989 a Guggenheim Fellow . He was twice a Miller Research Professor at Berkeley. In 1996 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize (for innovative applications of quantum theory and computer physics to predict properties of solids, especially excitation spectra in semiconductors and insulators ), in 2003 the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology from the Foresight Institute and in 1999 the Davisson-Germer Prize . He received the Outstanding Performance Award from the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the US Department of Energy's Award for Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics . In 2009 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He was visiting scholar at Grenoble University, Taiwan National University and Tokyo University. He is a US citizen.
Fonts
- with JR Chelikowsky (Ed.): Quantum Theory of Real Materials . Kluwer Academic Press, Boston 1996
- with JR Chelikowsky, G. Martinez, EL Shirley (Eds.): The Optical Properties of Materials . MRS Symp. Proceed. Vol. 579 ( Materials Research Society , Warrendale PA 2000).
- with Marvin Cohen (Ed.): Conceptual Foundations of Materials: A Standard Model for Ground- and Excited-State Properties . In: E. Burstein, ML Cohen, DL Mills, PJ Stiles (Eds.): Contemporary Concepts of Condensed Matter Physics . Elsevier, Amsterdam 2006.
Web links
- Homepage
- Steven G. Louie. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Rahman Price
- Davisson-Germer Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Louie, Steven G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Louie, Steven Gwon Sheng (full name); 雷 干 城 (Chinese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist of Chinese origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guangzhou , China |