Alexander L. ("Sandy") Fetter (born 16 May 1937) is an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Applied Physics at

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Alexander Fetter page at Stanford University Department of Physics
/ref> in California. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter and

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. Fetter graduated with a B.A. from Williams College in 1958, where he was valedictorian. He was also a

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at Balliol College of Oxford University. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1963. In 1968, Fetter joined the faculty at Stanford University, and has been there since. He served as chair of the department from 1985 to 1990. Fetter is a fellow of the

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/ref> He served as the director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials. Alexander Fetter retired from full-time as a professor in November 2007, but continues to work half time there.

Personal life

Alexander Fetter was married to Jean Fetter (who is now married to

Steven Chu Steven ChuLynn Bunim. His sister Ann ("Nan") Fetter Friedlaender was the first woman Dean at MIT (Economics Department). Fetter has 6 grandchildren the first of whom was born in 1995 and the most recent in 2007.

Selected publications

* ''Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems'', Dover Publications, 2003, * ''Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua'', Dover Publications, 2003, * ''Nonlinear Mechanics: A Supplement to Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua'', Dover Publications, 2006, * ''Nonuniform states of an imperfect bose gas'', Annals of Physics, 1972

References

1937 births Living people Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Stanford University Department of Applied Physics faculty Stanford University Department of Physics faculty Williams College alumni American Rhodes Scholars Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub