Allen Boozer (Born July 28, 1944 in
Orangeburg, South Carolina
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) is an American physicist, full professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University
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and co-recipient of the 2010
Hannes Alfvén Prize
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. He is noted for work in
.
Education
*Ph.D., physics,
Cornell University
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, 1970.
*bachelor-of-arts degree in physics from the
University of Virginia
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in 1966
*Elected to
Phi Beta Kappa
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as an undergraduate and received Woodrow Wilson and National Science Foundation fellowships as a graduate student.
Allen H. Boozer , Applied Physics and Applied Math
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21st-century American physicists
Living people
University of Virginia alumni
Cornell University alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
1944 births
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