Daniel Friedan is an American theoretical physicist and is one of two sons of the feminist author and activist
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan was an American writer, activist and feminist.A leading figure in the "Second Wave" of the U.S. Women's Movement, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is sometimes credited with sparking the "second wave" of feminism...
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He earned his Ph.D. from the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
in 1980 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987.
Friedan has worked in
string theoryString theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum theory of gravity...
and
condensed matterThere are at least 2 publications named Condensed Matter.-Ukrainian journal:Condensed Matter, scientific journal,publication of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics ofNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine....
theory, specializing in (1 + 1)-dimensional systems. His current research focuses on applications to quantum computers.
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Daniel Friedan is an American theoretical physicist and is one of two sons of the feminist author and activist
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan was an American writer, activist and feminist.A leading figure in the "Second Wave" of the U.S. Women's Movement, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is sometimes credited with sparking the "second wave" of feminism...
.
He earned his Ph.D. from the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
in 1980 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987.
Friedan has worked in
string theoryString theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum theory of gravity...
and
condensed matterThere are at least 2 publications named Condensed Matter.-Ukrainian journal:Condensed Matter, scientific journal,publication of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics ofNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine....
theory, specializing in (1 + 1)-dimensional systems. His current research focuses on applications to quantum computers. He co-founded the high energy theory group at
Rutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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