Paul Chaikin
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Paul Chaikin is an American physicist
. Professor Paul Chaikin earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech, where he studied under Richard Feynman, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He co-wrote Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (ISBN 0-521-43224-3) with T.C. Lubensky
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He currently teaches at New York University
and lives in Manhattan
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He is well known in the field of soft condensed matter physics and recently received praise for his research in packing of oblate spheroids.
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.
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...
. Professor Paul Chaikin earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech, where he studied under Richard Feynman, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He co-wrote Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (ISBN 0-521-43224-3) with T.C. Lubensky
Tom Lubensky
Tom C. Lubensky is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Mary Amanda Wood professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania...
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He currently teaches at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
and lives in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
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He is well known in the field of soft condensed matter physics and recently received praise for his research in packing of oblate spheroids.
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.