David Vanderbilt
David Vanderbilt | |
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| Born | 20 August 1954 (age 70) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Doctoral students | Shobhana Narasimhan, Nicola Marzari |
David Vanderbilt is a professor of physics at Rutgers University researching condensed-matter physics since 1991, and named Board of Governors Professor of Physics in 2009.[1] He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1976 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 studying under John D. Joannopoulos.[2] He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics in 2006.[3] The Aneesur Rahman prize is the highest honor given by the American Physical Society for work in computational physics. In 2013 he was elected to the National Academy of Science.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy". www.physics.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae of David Vanderbilt". Rutgers University. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "David Vanderbilt". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
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