Boris Altshuler

Boris Altshuler, Russian Борис Леонидович Альтшулер, ( born January 27, 1955 in Leningrad ) is a Russian- American physicist who deals with Solid State Physics ( Condensed Matter Physics ).

Life

Altshuler studied at the Leningrad State University, where in 1976 he received his diploma. In 1979 he received his doctorate at the Leningrad Institute of Nuclear Physics and remained there as a scientist. In 1989 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1996 as a professor at Princeton University. In 1994 he started for the NEC research laboratories to work (as NEC Research Fellow ). Since 2007 he is a professor at Columbia University.

In 1993 he received the Hewlett Packard EUR Physics Prize (now Agilent Physics Prize ). Since 1993 he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1996 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002 and of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2003 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the quantum mechanics of electrons in random potentials and confined geometries, including basic work on the relationship between disorder and interaction forms. For 2014, Andrei Sakharov Prize to him of the American Physical Society was awarded.