to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of Steven M. Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, to the academy.
Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in American science and engineering. Girvin is one of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 16 countries who are being recognized this year for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Girvin is a theoretical physicist who studies the quantum mechanics of large collections of atoms, molecules and electrons that are found in superconductors, magnets and transistors. He works closely with colleagues Rob Schoelkopf and Michel Devoret in addressing the question of whether it is possible to build a quantum computer.
In addition, Girvin is interested in quantum many-body physics, and quantum and classical phase transitions, particularly in disordered systems. Much of his work has been on the quantum Hall effect, but he has also worked on issues including superconductor-insulator transition, the vortex glass transition in high Tc superconductors, superfluid helium in fractal aerogel, the Anderson localization problem, the Coulomb blockade problem in mesoscopic device physics, and on quantum spin chains.
Author of over 150 research papers, Girvin is co-editor of the book "The Quantum Hall Effect," which has been translated into Japanese, Russian and Chinese. He is co-founder of the Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics in Colorado. Girvin is also a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established by Congress in 1863.
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