Patrick A. Lee (born 8 September 1946,
British Hong Kong
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) is a professor of
physics
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at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(MIT).
After spending ten years with the Theoretical Physics Department at
Bell Laboratories
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then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
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, Lee joined MIT in 1982. He has contributed to the field of "mesoscopic physics," or the study of small devices at low temperatures. He has also made important contributions to the theory of disordered electronic systems, among them the concept of universal conductance fluctuations. He was awarded the 2005 Dirac Medal of the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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as well as the Oliver Buckley Prize of the
American Physical Society
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. He is currently researching high temperature superconductors.
Awards
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Eugene Feenberg Medal, 2013
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Dirac Medal
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, 2005 (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
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Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
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, 1991
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Fellow of the American Physical Society
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The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation.
* List of American Physic ...
, 1986
Publications
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External links
Faculty profileat MIT
Array of Contemporary Physicists biography
References
1946 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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