Gerald Mahan
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Gerald Dennis Mahan (born November 24, 1937) is an American condensed matter physicist, with specific research interests in transport and optical properties of materials, and solid-state devices. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Education and career[]
Mahan earned an B.A. in Physics in 1959 at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.
Mahan has worked at General Electric Research Laboratory (1963–1967), and has been a professor of physics at the University of Oregon (1967–1973), Indiana University (1973–1984), University of Tennessee (1984–2001), and Pennsylvania State University (2001–present). He has also worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1984–2001).
Awards[]
- National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1959–1961
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1968–1970
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1974–present
- , 1979, co-winner, Outstanding Scientist at Indiana University
- , 1984, co-winner, General Electric Company, for development of the ZnO Varistor
- , Catholic University of Chile, 1989
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, since 1995
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005
- Eberly College of Science Medal, 2007
- Foreign Member, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, Göteborg, Sweden, 2008
- Erasmus , April 2011
Selected publications[]
Books[]
- Mahan, G.D. (1990). Many particle physics (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-0-306-43423-5.
- Mahan, G.D. (2000). Many particle physics (3rd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-3339-3.
- Mahan, G.D. (2011). Condensed Matter in a Nutshell (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14016-2.
- Mahan, G.D. (2009). Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13713-1.
- Mahan, G.D.; Subbaswamy, K.R. (1990). Local Density Theory of Polarizability. Plenum Press. ISBN 978-1-4613-5493-2.
- Mahan, G.D. (2002). Applied Mathematics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4613-5493-2.
- Cahn, S.B.; Mahan, G.D.; Nadgorny, B.E. (2004). A Guide to Physics Problems (Part 2): Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and quantum mechanics. Kluwer academic publishers. ISBN 0-306-45291-X.
Papers[]
- Mahan, G.D. (2009). "Kapitza resistance between a metal and a nonmetal". Phys. Rev. B. 79: 075408. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.79.075408.
- Duarte, N.; Mahan, G.D.; Tadigadapa, S. (2009). "Thermopower enhancement in nanowires via junction effects". Nano Letters. 9 (2): 617–22. Bibcode:2009NanoL...9..617D. doi:10.1021/nl802882h. PMID 19166287.
- Jeon, G.S.; Mahan, G.D. (2009). "Lattice vibrations of a single-wall boron nitride nanotube". Phys. Rev. 79 (8): 085424. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.79.085424.
- Mahan, G.D. (2010). "Theory of surface polaritons and image potentials in polar crystals". Phys. Rev. B. 81 (19): 195318. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.81.195318.
- M. W. Cole, V. H. Crespi, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, J. E. Fischer, H. Rodriguez Gutierrez, K. Kojima, G. D. Mahan, A. M. Rao, J. O. Sofo, M. Tachibana, K. Wako, Q. Xiong (2010). "Structural, electronic, optical and vibrational properties of nanoscale carbons and nanowires: a colloquial review". J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 22 (33): 334201. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/22/33/334201. PMID 21386491.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
- M. W. Cole, V. H. Crespi, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Mahan, and J. O. Sofo (2010). "Peter Clay Eklund: a scientific biography". J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 22 (33): 330301. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/22/33/330301. PMID 21386361.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Mahan, G.D. (2010). "Quantization of surface polaritons". Phys. Rev. B. 82 (16): 165318. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.82.165318.
- Mahan, G.D. (2011). "Thermal Transport in AB superlattices". Phys. Rev. B. 83 (12): 125313. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.125313.
- Mahan, G.D. (2011). "The tunneling of heat". Appl. Phys. Lett. 98: 132106. Bibcode:2011ApPhL..98b2106W. doi:10.1063/1.3541885.
- Mahan, G.D.; Berland, K. (2011). "Theory of polar corrections to donor binding". Phys. Rev. B. 84: 235203. Bibcode:2011PhRvB..84c5203C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.035203.
External links[]
- "Gerald Dennis Mahan". Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- "Gerald Dennis Mahan". American Physical Society. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- "Gerald Dennis Mahan". American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- "Gerald Dennis Mahan". Array of Contemporary American Physicists. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- "Mahan, Gerald D." WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
Categories:
- 1937 births
- Living people
- American condensed matter physicists
- 21st-century American physicists
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- United States National Science Foundation officials
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard University alumni
- American Institute of Physics
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- University of California, Berkeley alumni