| Born: |
January 14,
1937 |
| Education: |
A.B. Harvard 1957
M.A. Harvard 1958
Ph.D. Harvard 1960 |
| Employment: |
- Postdoctoral Research at the Bohr Institute for Theoretical Studies
in Copenhagen, 1960-1962.
- Assistant Professor (Physics), University of Illinois, January 1962.
- Associate Professor (Physics), University of Illinois, 1963-1964.
- Professor (Physics), University of Illinois, 1965-1969.
- Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England,
1965.
- University Professor and Professor of Physics and Engineering , Brown
University, 1969-1978.
- Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, 1978-Present.
- Director, University of Chicago Materials Research Laboratory, 1981-1984,
1994-1997.
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor
of Physics and Mathematics, 1982-Present.
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| Honors: |
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1962 - 1967
- Fellow American Physical Society
- Buckley Prize American Physical Society, 1977
- Member National Academy of Sciences (US)
- The Wolf Foundation Award, 1980
- Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Elliott Cresson Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1986
- Boltzmann Medal - IUPAP, 1989
- Quantrell Award, The University of Chicago, 1990
- Centennial Medal, Harvard University, 1990
- Member American Philosophical Society, 1997
- Onsager Prize, American Physical Society, 1998
- Grande Medaille d'Or, Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de
France, December, 1998
- The National Medal of Science (US), 1999
- The Ryerson Lectureship, University of Chicago, 2000
- Honorary Doctor in Science, University of Copenhagen, 2000.
- Lorentz Professorship, University of Leiden, 2003.
- Onsager Medal, University of Trondheim, Trondheim Norway, 2004.
- Onsager lectureship, Trondheim Technological Institute, 2005
- Lorentz Medal, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, 2006
- Presidency, The American Physical Society, 2007
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| Community Service: |
- Vice-President NAACP, Urbana Chapter, 1963-1965
- Member of Technical Committee, Statewide Planning Program, State of
Rhode Island, 1973-1978
- Chairman, Human Resources Sub-Committee, Statewide Planning Program,
Rhode Island, 1973-1978
- President, Urban Observatory (Rhode Island), 1974-1978
- Vice President, The Shakespeare Project, Chicago, 1997-1999
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| Professional Service: |
- Advisory Committee, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara),
1978 - 1981
- Advisory Committee, Schlumberger Doll Research Laboratory, Statistical
Physics Program, 1981 - 1986
- Board of Physics and Astronomy, National Research Council, 1983 -
1986
- Member, Board of Governors, Argonne National Laboratory, 1983 - 1984
- Advisory Committee Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of
Minnesota, 1986 - 1990
- Advisory Board of The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science,
Berkeley, 1988 - 1993
- Scientific Advisory Board, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1994
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- Visiting Committee, Harvard Physics Department, 1999 -
- Scientific Advising Board, NEC Research Laboratory, New Jersey, 1999
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