Carlo Beenakker
Carlo Beenakker | |
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 Carlo Beenakker at Leiden University in April 2007 | |
| Born | 9 June 1960 |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Father | Jan Beenakker |
| Awards | Spinoza Prize (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics, quantum science, nanoscience |
| Thesis | On transport properties of concentrated suspensions (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Mazur |
| Website | www |
Carlo Willem Joannes Beenakker (born 9 June 1960) is a professor at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established in 1992.
Education and career
[edit | edit source]Born in Leiden as the son of physicists Jan Beenakker and Elena Manaresi,[1][2] Beenakker graduated from Leiden University in 1982 and obtained his doctorate two years later.[3]
After the awarding of his doctorate, he then spent one year working in the United States of America as a fellow of the Niels Stensen Foundation[4] before returning to the Netherlands as a member of the scientific staff of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. He joined the Lorentz Institute for theoretical physics at Leiden University in 1991.[3]
Work
[edit | edit source]His work in mesoscopic physics addresses fundamental physical problems that occur when a macroscopic object is miniaturized to dimensions on the nanoscale.[5][6] Quantum mechanical effects then play a decisive role, as demonstrated in the quantum point contact (a narrow constriction with a quantized conductance). To understand the universal quantum mechanical properties of mesoscopic systems, Beenakker adapted methods from the theory of random matrices, originally developed in the context of nuclear physics.[7] Discoveries by Beenakker and colleagues include the one-third suppression of shot noise in metallic conductors and specular Andreev reflection in graphene.[8][9]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]In 1993, he shared the Royal/Shell prize for "the discovery and explanation of quantum effects in the electrical conduction in mesoscopic systems". He was elected a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities in 2001, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.[10] He was awarded one of the Netherlands' most prestigious science awards, the Spinozapremie, in 1999.[11] In 2006 he was honored with the AkzoNobel Science Award "for his pioneering work in the field of nanoscience".[12] He was granted an honorary doctorate from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[5][13] Beenakker is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[14] and of the American Physical Society[15] and a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[16]
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External links
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Dutch physicists
- Science teachers
- Leiden University alumni
- Academic staff of Leiden University
- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Spinoza Prize winners
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science