Lu Jeu Sham

Lu Jeu Sham ( born April 28, 1938 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese - American physicist who deals with theoretical solid state physics and quantum optics.

Sham studied at the University of London with a Bachelor 's degree in 1960 and the Imperial College London ( ARCS completion 1960) and in 1963 received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge in theoretical solid state physics. Then he was at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD ), from 1966 assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine and 1967-1968 Reader at Queen Mary College, University of London. He became Associate Professor and in 1974 Professor at UCSD, where he was from 1985 to 1989 Dean of Science in 1968.

It is particularly important for the development of density functional theory with Walter Kohn known ( Kohn -Sham equation). He contributed to the solution of the band-gap problem in ( underestimation of the band gap of insulators by the density functional theory ) and examined the optical properties of semiconductor structures. Most recently he worked on optical control of electron spins in quantum dots in quantum information processing in spintronics.

In 1978 he was a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, 1998 Miller Visiting Professor at Berkeley in 2001 and CN Yang Visiting Professor at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. 1983/84 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and he received a Humboldt Research Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Academia Sinica of the People's Republic of China. In 2004 he was awarded the Willis E. Lamb Award.

He stood in front of the semiconductor section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.