David A. Weitz

David A. Weitz
Born	October 3, 1951(1951-10-03) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	American and Canadian
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Harvard University
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Waterloo
Doctoral advisor	Michael Tinkham
Doctoral students	Peter Lu, Suliana Manley, Thomas G. Mason, Megan T. Valentine
Known for	Diffusing-wave spectroscopy; microrheology Contributions in the fields of confocal microscopy, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, nanotechnology, rheology, interface and colloid science, colloid chemistry, biophysics, soft condensed matter physics, phase transitions, complex fluids, the study of glass and amorphous solids, liquid crystals, self-assembly, fluid mechanics, surface-enhanced light scattering, diffusion-limited aggregation.
Notable awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences Member of the American Association of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the American Physical Society Exxon Incentive Award Numerous named lectureships

David A. Weitz (b. October 3, 1951, Ottawa, Canada) is a Canadian/American physicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Applied Physics and professor of Systems Biology at Harvard University. He is the co-director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, co-director of the Harvard Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology, and director of the Harvard Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. He is best known for his work in the areas of diffusing-wave spectroscopy, microrheology, microfluidics, rheology, fluid mechanics, interface and colloid science, colloid chemistry, biophysics, complex fluids, soft condensed matter physics, phase transitions, the study of glass and amorphous solids, liquid crystals, self-assembly, surface-enhanced light scattering, and diffusion-limited aggregation. As of December 2008, he has a Hirsch index of 64.

Weitz received his PhD in superconductivity from Harvard. He then worked as a research physicist at Exxon Research and Engineering for nearly 18 years, leading the Interfaces and Inhomogeneous Materials Group and Complex Fluids Area. He then became a Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, before moving to Harvard in 1999.

External links

• Weitz Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group Homepage
• Harvard Physics Department Listing
• The Weitzlab Guide to Good Paper Writing
• Weitz profile page, Wyss Institute

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Name	Weitz, David
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Date of birth	October 3, 1951
Place of birth	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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