David Awschalom

David D. Awschalom (born 1956)^[1] is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors. He was awarded the 2005 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, and the 2005 Agilent Europhysics Prize by the European Physical Society.

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.^[2] He is a professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and also serves as Director of the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation and Associate Director of the California Nanosystems Institute. He has a Hirsch number of 61. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 
2. ^ "David Awschalom". The Awschalom Group. University of California, Santa Barbara. http://awsch-web.physics.ucsb.edu/members/awschalom/index.php. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 

External links

• Official Biographical Info
• Buckley Prize press release
• Europhysics Prize

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Name	Awschalom, David
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Short description	American physicist
Date of birth	1956
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