David Robert Nelson

David R. Nelson (born September 5, 1951, Stuttgart) is an American physicist,^[1] and Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics, at Harvard University.^[2]

Nelson graduated from Cornell University Summa cum laude in 1972, with a MS in 1974, and with a Ph.D. in 1975. Since 1997 he has been a professor at Harvard University

His research is in the field of condensed matter. Together with Bertrand Halperin, he has established the theory of dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions.

Awards

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1995 Harvard Ledlie Prize of Harvard University
• 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[3]
• 1986 Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences
• 1979-1983 AP Sloan Fellowship

Works

• D.R. Nelson and B.I. Halperin, "Dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions." Phys. Rev. B 19: 2457 (1979).
• D.R. Nelson, "Order frustration and defects in liquids and glasses." Phys. Rev. B 28: 5515 (1983).
• D.R. Nelson and L. Peliti, "Fluctuations in membranes with crystalline and hexatic order." Journal de Physique 48: 1085 (1987).
• D.R. Nelson, "Vortex entanglement in high temperature superconductors." Phys. Rev. Lett. 60: 1973 (1988).
• D.R. Nelson and V. Vinokur, "Boson localization and correlated pinning of superconducting vortex arrays." Phys. Rev. B 48: 13060 (1993).
• N. Hatano and D.R. Nelson, "Vortex pinning and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics." Phys. Rev. B 56: 8651 (1997).
• D.R. Nelson and N. Shnerb, "Non-Hermitian localization and population biology." Phys. Rev. E 58: 1383 (1998).
• D. Lubensky and D.R. Nelson, "Single molecule statistics and the polynucleotide unzipping transition," Phys. Rev. E 65, 03917 (2002).

References

1. ^ http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/nelson.html
2. ^ http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/nelson
3. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=n&page=2

External links

• ISI Web of Knowledge Retrieved on 5 October 2009.
• "DNA unzipping and motor proteins: Effect of the genetic code" Retrieved on 5 October 2009.
• "David R. Nelson", Scientific Commons

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