 | Pierre Hohenberg |
Pierre Hohenberg, newly appointed as the Eugene Higgins Adjunct Professor of Physics, has conducted interdisciplinary research at the interface between physics, mathematics, materials science and biology.
He will step down from his post as deputy provost for physical sciences and engineering July 1 after serving in the position since 1995. In that role, he has been responsible for budgetary and administrative matters of Yale's departments and programs in the physical sciences and engineering.
Hohenberg's scientific interests include the physics of condensed matter, phase transitions and critical phenomena, statistical physics, hydrodynamic instabilities and nonequilibrium phenomena. Last fall, he was awarded the prestigious Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society for contributions during his career in such areas as the theory of dynamic scaling close to critical points, the theory of pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems and density functional theory.
Hohenberg earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He came to Yale in 1995 after working for more than 30 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he conducted research on theoretical condensed matter physics. He served for three years, from 1974 to 1977, as a professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich, and he has held visiting professorships there and at the University of Paris VII, as well as at Kyushu, Kyoto and Tokyo universities in Japan. He was the Lorentz Professor at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1991 and held named lectureships at several universities.
Hohenberg has served on many advisory committees. As a member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, he helped develop programs in a range of academic fields and played a growing role in the public policy arena. While working with the American Physical Society, of which he is a fellow, he formulated public policies on issues ranging from professional ethics to research priorities, national energy policy and national security. He also chaired the society's Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists and was co-founder of the Committee of Concerned Scientists' Program for Refugee Scientists. He has also served as a member of numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, and is a current member of its Report Review Committee.
The Yale physicist's other honors include the Fritz London Prize for Low Temperature Physics and the Max Planck Medaille
of the German Physical Society. He is a fellow of the American of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
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