Gabriel Kotliar (born 1957) is a
physicist
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at
Rutgers University
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in the
United States
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, where he is Board of Governors Professor of Physics.
Early life
Kotliar was born in Argentina. He studied in the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, where he received a B.Sc. degree in
Physics
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and
Mathematics in 1979, followed by an M.Sc. in Physics under the tutelage of
Daniel Amit in 1980. He then moved to
Princeton University
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, where he received his PhD in Physics in 1983 while working with Prof.
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking (including a paper in 1 ...
.
Career
His first teaching position was as a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the
University of California Santa Barbara
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for two years, 1983 to 1985, when he was appointed as an assistant professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. He joined Rutgers University in 1988, still as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1992. In the autumn of 1990, along with
Antoine Georges, he developed
dynamical mean field theory Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a method to determine the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials. In such materials, the approximation of independent electrons, which is used in density functional theory and usual band structu ...
.
He has been a visiting professor at the
École Normale Supérieure
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, the
École Polytechnique
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, and the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
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Recognition
From 1986 to 1988 he was
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and in 1987 received the ''Young Investigator Award''. In 1994 he became a Lady Davis
fellow
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, and nine years later accepted a
Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 he was awarded the ''
Europhysics Prize''. He was named a
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2000, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for development of the dynamical mean field method and its application to strongly correlated electron systems". In 2019 he was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences.
References
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Living people
1957 births
20th-century births
Rutgers University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Sloan Research Fellows
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences