David Awschalom

Daniel David Awschalom ( born October 11, 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American physicist specializing in condensed matter. He is best known for his work on spintronics and semiconductor.

Career

Awschalom in 1978 received his B.Sc. in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and his PhD in experimental physics in 1982 from Cornell University. He was Research Associate and manager of Nonequilibrium Physics Department at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In 1991 he went to the University of California at Santa Barbara professor of physics.

He is currently professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and also serves as director for the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation and deputy director of the California NanoSystems Institute.

In 2005 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society and the Agilent Euro Physics Prize of the European Physical Society. In 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.