David Awschalom | |
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 David Awschalom speaking at the 2013 Nobel Week Dialogue in Göteborg, Sweden | |
| Born | October 11, 1956 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign(BS) Cornell University(PhD) |
| Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Prize(2005) Agilent Europhysics Prize(2005) Turnbull Lectureship Award(2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics Spintronics |
| Workplaces | University of Chicago University of California, Santa Barbara |
David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors.
Awschalom graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a B.Sc. in physics. He received a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Cornell University. He is the director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange and a Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME). He previously served as the director of the California Nanosystems Institute and was a professor in the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as an associated faculty member in the department of electrical and computer engineering. He has a Hirsch number of 119.
