Lu Jeu Sham

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Lu Jeu Sham
Born
沈呂九

(1938-04-28) 28 April 1938 (age 83)
British Hong Kong
NationalityUnited States
Alma materImperial College London
University of Cambridge
Known forKohn–Sham equations
Density functional theory (DFT)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego

Lu Jeu Sham (Chinese: 沈呂九) (born April 28, 1938) is an American physicist. He is best known for his work with Walter Kohn on the Kohn–Sham equations.

Biography[]

Lu Jeu Sham's family was from Fuzhou, Fujian, but he was born in British Hong Kong on April 28, 1938.[citation needed] He received his Bachelor of Science from Imperial College London in 1960[citation needed] and his PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1963.[1]

Sham was a professor in the Department of Physics at University of California, San Diego, eventually serving as department head.[citation needed] He is now a UCSD professor emeritus.[1]

Sham was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.[2]

Scientific contributions[]

Sham is noted for his work on density functional theory (DFT) with Walter Kohn, which resulted in the Kohn–Sham equations of DFT.[3] The Kohn–Sham method is widely used in materials science.[4] Kohn received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for the Kohn–Sham equations and other work related to DFT.

Sham's other research interests include condensed matter physics and optical control of electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures for quantum information processing.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "UC San Diego - Department of Physics". Physics.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Lu Jeu Sham". Nasonline.org. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. ^ Lalena, John; Cleary, David (2010). Principles of Inorganic Materials Design. p. 198. ISBN 9780470567531. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  4. ^ Gross, E. K. U.; Dreizler, R. M. (1993). Density Functional Theory.
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