David Vanderbilt
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David Vanderbilt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 August 1954 (age 71) |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Doctoral students | Shobhana Narasimhan, Nicola Marzari |
David Vanderbilt is an American physicist. He 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]
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