- Carlo Beenakker
Carlo W. J. Beenakker (born
June 9 ,1960 ) is a professor atLeiden University and leader of the university'smesoscopic physics group, established in 1992.Born in
Leiden , he graduated there in 1982 and obtained his doctorate two years later. He then spent one year working in the USA as a fellow of the Niels Stensen Foundation before returning to the Netherlands as a member of the scientific staff of thePhilips Research Laboratories inEindhoven . He was made External Professor ofTheoretical Physics at Leiden in 1991.His work in
mesoscopic physics addresses fundamental physical problems that occur when amacroscopic object is miniaturized.In 1993 he shared the Royal/Shell prize for "the discovery and explanation of quantum effects in the
electrical conduction in mesoscopic systems". He was elected a member of the Royal Hollands Society of Sciences and Humanities in 2001, and theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. He was awarded one of the Netherland's most prestigious science awards, theSpinozapremie , in 1999. In 2006 he was honored with theAkzo Nobel Science Award "for his pioneering work in the field ofnanoscience ".In a 1997 study by the Institute for Scientific Information, Beenakker rated in the top 300 most cited physicists of the previous 16 years.
External links
* [http://www.ilorentz.org/beenakker/ Mesoscopic physics in Leiden]
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