Marvin L. Cohen
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Marvin L. Cohen is a Canadian-born American physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

. He is a professor of condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics deals with the physical properties of condensed phases of matter. These properties appear when a number of atoms at the supramolecular and macromolecular scale interact strongly and adhere to each other or are otherwise highly concentrated in a system. The most familiar...

 and materials science
Materials science
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 at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert Betts Laughlin is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall...

 studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.

Cohen received his PhD from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 in 1964, under Professor Jim Phillips. He has received the Oliver E. Buckley Prize
Buckley Prize
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 in 1979, the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize in 1994, and the National Medal of Science
National Medal of Science
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 in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2005, he served as President of the American Physical Society
American Physical Society
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. He is noted for studies of materials.

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Top physical scientists by h-index
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Physics

1. Ed Witten 124
(Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

2. Marvin Cohen 102
(University of California, Berkeley)

3. Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson is an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.- Biography :...

 102
(Princeton University)

4. Manuel Cardona
Manuel Cardona
Manuel Cardona Castro is a physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona is one of the eighth most cited physicist since 1970...

 100
(Max Planck Institute for Solid
State Research, Stuttgart, Germany)

5. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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88
(ESPCI, Paris)

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