David Drabold

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David Alan Drabold (born 13 February 1960) is an American physicist, currently Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor [1] at Ohio University.

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Early life

Born in Akron, Ohio, he received a B.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Akron in 1982, and a PhD. in physics from Washington University in St. Louis under the supervision of Peter Fedders. He held term appointments in the department of physics at the University of Notre Dame, and Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where his key mentors were Otto F. Sankey and Richard M. Martin.

Research

Drabold's work focuses on the theory of amorphous materials. [2] He is a theoretical physicist working primarily in condensed matter physics and computational physics. He is known for his formulation of algorithms to elucidate consequences of structural disorder to electronic, optical and transport properties. [3] His published research has over 10,000 scientific citations and has been published in high impact journals such as Nature and Science . [4] He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, [5] the Institute of Physics and the Royal Numismatic Society. [6]

He has been Visiting Fellow Commoner in Trinity College, Cambridge, [7] and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 2008. [8]

Selected publications

Origins of structural and electronic transitions in disordered silicon [9]

Theory of diamondlike amorphous carbon [10]

Energetics of Large Fullerenes: Balls, Tubes, and Capsules [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ohio University Outlook". www.ohio.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  2. ↑ Drabold, D. A. (2009-03-01). "Topics in the theory of amorphous materials". The European Physical Journal B. 68 (1): 1–21. Bibcode:2009EPJB...68....1D. doi:10.1140/epjb/e2009-00080-0. ISSN   1434-6028. S2CID   1468456.
  3. ↑ "Physicists, mathematicians turn to blackboards to answer universal questions" . Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  4. ↑ "David A. Drabold Google Scholar" . Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  5. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  6. ↑ CRIBB, JOE (2009). "Proceedings". The Numismatic Chronicle. 169: 531–556. JSTOR   42678641.
  7. ↑ "Trinity College Annual Record 2008 by Trinity College Cambridge - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  8. ↑ "Grant listings | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  9. ↑ Deringer, Volker L.; Bernstein, Noam; Csányi, Gábor; Ben Mahmoud, Chiheb; Ceriotti, Michele; Wilson, Mark; Drabold, David A.; Elliott, Stephen R. (2021). "Origins of structural and electronic transitions in disordered silicon". Nature. 589 (7840): 59–64. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03072-z. PMID   33408379. S2CID   244961379 . Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  10. ↑ Drabold, D. A.; Fedders, P. A.; Stumm, Petra (1994). "Theory of diamondlike amorphous carbon". Physical Review B. 49 (23): 16415–16422. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.49.16415. PMID   10010793 . Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  11. ↑ Adams, Gary B.; Sankey, Otto F.; Page, John B.; O'Keeffe, Michael; Drabold, David A. (1992). "Energetics of Large Fullerenes: Balls, Tubes, and Capsules". Science. 256 (5065): 1792–1795. doi:10.1126/science.256.5065.1792. PMID   17743034. S2CID   23675780 . Retrieved 2021-06-21.
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