Robert J. Birgeneau

Robert J. Birgeneau ( born March 25, 1942 in Toronto ) is a Canadian physicist who works in experimental solid state physics.

Birgeneau studied at the University of Toronto (Bachelor 1963) and received his doctorate in 1966 at Yale University. He then as a post- doc at the University of Oxford, and in 1968 scientists at Bell Laboratories was. From 1975 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1991 to 2000 he was dean ( Dean of Science) and 1988-1991 Board of the physics faculty. From 2000 to 2004 he was president of the University of Toronto since 2004 and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also professor.

He examined among other one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet with neutron scattering, where a good agreement was found with the exact theory of Michael E. Fisher, and two-dimensional antiferromagnets.

Since 1968 he is a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1987 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and the 2000 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize. He was awarded the IUPAP for magnetism.