Michael Cohen (physicist)
Professor Emeritus at UPenn / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Cohen is an American condensed matter physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. His work investigates liquid helium, ferroelectrics, and biological membranes using quantum mechanics.[1]
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Michael Cohen | |
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Education | Cornell University (B.S.) Caltech (PhD) |
Honours | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Condensed matter physics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Aspen Center for Physics (co-founder) |
Thesis | The Energy Spectrum of the Excitations in Liquid Helium (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Feynman |
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He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and co-founder of the Aspen Center for Physics (ACP), described as a "utopia for physicists,"[2] for which he remains an Honorary Trustee.