See also
- Leslie Kolodziejski, fellow MIT physicist and collaborator of Joannopoulos
John Joannopoulos | |
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| Born | April 26, 1947 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Thesis | Electronic structure of complex crystalline and amorphous semiconductors (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marvin L. Cohen |
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John D. Joannopoulos (born April 26, 1947) is an American physicist, focused in condensed matter theory. He is currently the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and American Physical Society (APS).
Joannopoulos was born on April 26, 1947 in New York City to Greek parents. [1] He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Most recently, in 2015, the Optical Society of America (OSA) awarded him the Max Born Award and the APS awarded him the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, both significant awards. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Joannopoulos is also the director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. He first gained that position in 2006. [7]
Joannopoulos has been on the MIT faculty since 1974. He holds his BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, the latter received in 1974. His doctoral studies, advised by Marvin L. Cohen, focused on electronic structure of complex crystalline and amorphous semiconductors. [1]
Joannopoulos has helped set the theoretical foundations of key computational techniques for realistic and microscopic studies of complex materials systems, including the electronic, vibrational, and optical structure of crystalline and amorphous solids, their surfaces, interfaces, and defects; localization in disordered systems; and the first ab-initio studies of phase transitions and critical phenomena. In the early nineties, he also helped spawn the development of a new class of materials (photonic crystals) that provide new mechanisms to control the flow of light and have revolutionized the fields of optical and lightwave physics.[ citation needed ]
His students include Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin, David Vanderbilt, Eugene J. Mele, Shanhui Fan, Steven G. Johnson, and Karin M. Rabe. [8]
Henry Frederick "Fritz" Schaefer III is an American computational, physical, and theoretical chemist. He is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world, with a Thomson Reuters h-index of 121 as of 2020.
Marvin Lou Cohen is an American–Canadian theoretical physicist. He is a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cohen is a leading expert in the field of condensed matter physics. He is widely known for his seminal work on the electronic structure of solids.
David Vanderbilt is a professor of physics at Rutgers University researching condensed-matter physics since 1991, and named Board of Governors Professor of Physics in 2009. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1976 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 studying under John D. Joannopoulos. He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics in 2006. 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.
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