Walter A. Harrison

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Walter Ashley Harrison (born April 26, 1930 in Flushing , New York City ) is an American theoretical solid-state physicist .

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Harrison studied physics at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 (as a physics engineer) and at the University of Illinois with a master's degree in 1954 and a doctorate under Frederick Seitz in 1956. He then worked in the research laboratories of General Electric until 1965 . In 1965 Harrison began work as a professor of applied physics at Stanford University .

In addition to the quantum theory of solids (including pseudopotential theory), he deals with the quantum theory of chemical bonds. During his active career as a physicist, he wrote several well-known textbooks on theoretical solid-state physics.

In 1982 he was awarded the Senior US Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation and thus carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society. In addition, Harrison Guggenheim was a Fellow and conducted research as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall) in 1970/71 . He also worked as a consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory .

Harrison has been married since 1954 and has four sons.

Fonts

  • Solid State Theory, Dover 1980
  • Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids: The Physics of the Chemical Bond, Dover 1989
  • Applied Quantum Mechanics, World Scientific 2000
  • Elementary Electronic Structure, World Scientific 2004
  • Theoretical Alchemy: Modeling Matter, World Scientific 2010

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Walter A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrison, Walter Ashley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Flushing , New York