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Paul Chaikin

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Paul Chaikin (born November 14, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist.

Education and research

Chaikin earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech, where he studied under Richard Feynman, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

He currently teaches at New York University and lives in Manhattan. He is well known in the field of soft condensed matter physics [citation needed] and recently received praise for his research in packing of oblate spheroids.[1]

Books

He co-wrote the book Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (ISBN 0-521-43224-3) with Tom Lubensky.

Awards

Awards include a Sloan Fellowship (1979–81), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), and election to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2004). In 2009 he won a World Technology Award for individual contribution in materials research.[2]

References

  1. ^ M&M's obsession leads to physics discovery
  2. ^ 2009 World Technology Awards website


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