Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen ( born March 3, 1935 in Montreal) is an American physicist who is engaged in theoretical solid state physics.

Cohen studied at the University of California, Berkeley ( BA ) and the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1964. 1963/4 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories. From 1964 he was in Berkeley, where he is first an assistant professor, associate professor since 1966 and since 1969 professor. Since 1995 he has been there University professor of " Condensed matter physics and material science". Since 1965 he is also a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Cohen is one of the leading scientists in " ab initio " calculations of the electronic structure of solids, which he also used to predict the properties of new materials. With his group, he examined a wide variety of solid-state systems, such as nanotubes, quantum dots, fullerenes, high-temperature superconductors.

Cohen is since 1980 a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1993 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1965 he was Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow in 1978 and 1990. In 1979 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and the 1994 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society, whose fellow he is, and which he was president in 2005. In 1981 he received a prize from the DoE for Solid State Physics and 1991 the Certificate of Merite by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2001 he received the National Medal of Science. In 2005 he was president of the American Physical Society. In 2011 he was awarded the Dickson Prize in Science and in 2003 with the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.

Writings

  • Looking back and ahead in condensed matter physics, Physics Today, June 2006.
  • Novel materials from theory, Nature Vol 338, 1989, p 291
  • Predicting new solids and superconductors, Science, Vol 234, 1986, p 549
  • With Volker Heine, James C. Phillips: Quantum mechanics of materials, Scientific American, June 1982.
United States Department of Energy Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology James Charles Phillips
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