Susan Coppersmith
Susan Nan Coppersmith (* 1957 ) is an American physicist who works in the field of theoretical solid-state physics .
Life
Susan Coppersmith studied from 1974 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom . In 1983 she received her doctorate from Cornell University with a thesis in the field of theoretical solid state physics Dynamics of an Incommensurate Harmonic Chain . The supervisor of the work was Daniel S. Fisher . She then worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and AT&T Bell Laboratories . From 1995 to 2001 she was a physics professor at the University of Chicago . She has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin since 2001 .
Coppersmith conducts research in the field of complex systems and especially those that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium . She published important results for understanding phase transitions in disordered systems, superconductivity and quantum computing .
She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1992) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999). She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006 . In 2009 she was accepted into the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Personal homepage
- Susan Nan Coppersmith. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Susan Coppersmith in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Coppersmith, Susan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coppersmith, Susan Nan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |