David Robert Nelson

David Robert Nelson ( born May 9, 1951 in Stuttgart) is an American physicist.

Nelson received the 1972 A. B. summa cum laude from Cornell University, Ithaca. In 1974, the M. S. and 1975, the Ph.D. in physics. Since 1997 he is a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge.

His research focus is the Condensed Matter. Together with Bertrand Halperin, he has established the theory of dislocation -mediated melting in two dimensions.

Awards

Selected Publications

  • Nelson: Defects and Geometry in condensed matter physics. Cambridge University Press 2002
  • DR Nelson and BI Halperin: Dislocation -mediated melting in two dimensions. In: Physical Review B. Volume 19, 1979, p 2457th
  • DR Nelson: Order frustration and defects in liquids and glasses. In: Physical Review B. Volume 28, 1983, p 5515th
  • DR Nelson and L. Peliti: Fluctuations in membranes with crystalline and hexatic order. In: Journal de Physique. Volume 48, 1987, p 1085th
  • DR Nelson: Vortex entanglement in high temperature superconductors. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 60, 1988, p 1973.
  • DR Nelson and V. Vinokur: Boson localization and correlated pinning of superconducting vortex arrays. In: Physical Review B. Volume 48, 1993, p 13060th
  • N. Hatano and DR Nelson: Vortex pinning and non- Hermitian quantum mechanics. In: Physical Review B. Volume 56, 1997, p 8651st
  • DR Nelson and N. Shnerb: Non- Hermitian localization and population biology. In: Physical Review E. Volume 58, 1998, p 1383rd
  • D. Lubensky and DR Nelson: Single molecule statistics and the polynucleotide unzipping transition. In: Physical Review E. Volume 65, 2002, p 03917th
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