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Ned S. Wingreen
Wingreen at Princeton
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
Cornell University
Known forMeir-Wingreen Formula
Scientific career
InstitutionsNEC
Princeton University
Doctoral advisorJohn W. Wilkins

Ned Wingreen is a theoretical physicist and the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences at Princeton University. He is a member of the Department of Molecular Biology and of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, where he is currently associate director.[1] He is also associated faculty in the Department of Physics. Working with Yigal Meir, Wingreen formulated the Meir-Wingreen Formula which describes the electric current through an arbitrary mesoscopic system.[2]

Education and career

Wingreen received a B.S. in Physics from California Institute of Technology in 1984.[3] Wingreen then received his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from Cornell University in 1989 as a Hertz Fellow.[4] His dissertation was titled "Resonant Tunneling with Electron-Phonon Interaction" and he was advised by John W. Wilkins.[4] He did his postdoc in mesoscopic physics at MIT. There, along with Yigal Meir, he formulated the Meir-Wingreen Formula that describes the electric current through an arbitrary mesoscopic system.[2]

In 1991 he moved to the NEC Research Institute in Princeton. At NEC, he continued to work in mesoscopic physics, but also started research in biophysics which grew into a general interest in problems at the interface of physics and biology.[5] Wingreen joined Princeton University in 2004.[6] Wingreen's current research focuses on modelling intracellular networks in bacteria and other micro-organisms, as well as studies of microbial communities.[7] He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Honors

Academic:

  1. Presidential Scholar (1980) [3][citation needed]
  2. Carnation Merit Scholarship (1982-1983) [3][citation needed]
  3. Caltech Merit Scholarship (1983-1984) [3][citation needed]
  4. Jack E. Froehlich Memorial Award (1983) [3][citation needed]
  5. McKinney Prize in Literature (1984) [3][citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Cruz, Maritza (May 19, 2016). "Ned Wingreen". Princeton University Molecular Biology. Retrieved May 20, 2016. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  2. ^ a b Meir, Yigal; Ned S. Wingreen (1992). "Landauer formula for the current through an interacting electron region". Physical Review Letters. 68 (16): 2512. Bibcode:1992PhRvL..68.2512M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.2512.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Wingreen CV" (PDF).
  4. ^ a b "Ned Wingreen". hertzfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  5. ^ "Wingreen Lab Research". Princeton University Molecular Biology Research Labs. May 16, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  6. ^ "Ned S. Wingreen Faculty Profile". Princeton University Molecular Biology Research Labs. May 16, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  7. ^ "Ned Wingreen". Google Scholar Citations. Retrieved May 20, 2016.


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