David Awschalom | |
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 David Awschalom speaking at the 2013 Nobel Week Dialogue in Göteborg, Sweden | |
| Born | October 11, 1956 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign(BS) Cornell University(PhD) |
| Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Prize(2005) Agilent Europhysics Prize(2005) Turnbull Lectureship Award(2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics Spintronics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of California, Santa Barbara |
David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States)[1] is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors.
Awschalom graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a B.Sc. in physics. He received a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Cornell University.[2][3] He is the director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange[4] and a Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME).[3] He previously served as the director of the California Nanosystems Institute and was a professor in the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as an associated faculty member in the department of electrical and computer engineering. He has a Hirsch number of 96.
