David S. Weiss is an American physicist. Weiss graduated from

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in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics. He earned a Ph.D. in the same subject in 1993, from

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. Weiss began his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the

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faculty in 2001, where he later became a distinguished professor. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 2007, and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences awarded him an equivalent honor in 2020. Weiss is the 2022 awardee of the Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, conferred by the American Physical Society.

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