Gabriel Aeppli
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 Gabriel Aeppli during a visit to theCenter for Quantum Nanoscience | |
| Born | 25 November 1956 Zürich,Switzerland |
| Nationality | AmericanSwiss |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology(B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD) |
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Gabriel Aeppli,PhDFRS(born 25 November 1956) is a Swiss-American electrical engineer, co-founder of theLondon Centre for Nanotechnology,professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, also in Switzerland.[1][2]
He has contributed to spectroscopy on the magnetism of disordered systems and on high-temperature superconductors andantiferromagnetism,identifying magnets with tuneable quantum fluctuations that can be used to study the transition between classical and quantum behavior. His work has helped to demonstrate that quantum spin fluctuations underlie exotic superconductivity.
He has been the recipient of multiple honors, and he has more than 290peer-reviewpublications, 14,054 total citations from 9,542 documents, and ah-indexof 70.
Life
[edit]Gabriel, the son of mathematician Alfred Aeppli and Dorothee Aeppli, was born inZürich25 November 1956.
Shortly after birth, Gabriel Aeppli moved fromZürichwith his father to the United States.[3]
He lived inLondon,United Kingdom, from 2002 to 2015, when he moved back toZürich.
Career
[edit]He studied at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology,where he obtained a B.Sc. in 1978 in mathematics and PhD, M.Sc. & B.Sc, in electrical engineering (1983).
He was a research assistant at MIT and an industrial co-op student at IBM. From 1982 he was at the Bell Laboratories hired in 1993 as a distinguished member of the technical staff. From 1996 to 2002, he was a senior research scientist at the NEC Laboratories in Princeton.
From 2002, asQuain Professorof Physics at University College London (UCL), he helped to found theLondon Centre for Nanotechnology,where he acted as director until March 2015.[4]
His current technical focus is on the implications of photon science and nanotechnology for information processing and health care. He is a board member of Bio Nano Consulting.[5][6]
Currently, he is the director of synchrotron radiation and nanotechnology at the Paul Scherrer Institute.[7]
Research
[edit]Honors
[edit]- 2015 FellowNational Academy of Sciences[8]
- 2012 Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2010Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2008 Institute of Physics:Mott Medal and Prize[9]
- 2005 American Physical Society:Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize[10]
- 2005Majumdar Memorial Awardof theIndian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- 2003Neel Medal(magnetism prize ofIUPAP)
- 2002Riso National LaboratoryFellow
- 2002 Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit Award
- 1997 Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society
- 1996 Fellow of theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science
In addition, he has been a member and chairman of many panels, sponsored by the USDOE, American Physical Society, EPSRC, and National Research Council (US), among others.[11]
Books
[edit]- "Neutron Scattering from Random Ferromagnets", Gabriel Aeppli, 1982 - 310 pages
- "Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Models", Amit Dutta, Gabriel Aeppli, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Diptiman Sen, Cambridge University Press, 28 Jan 2015 - Science - 360 pages
References
[edit]- ^"Index".www.ethlife.ethz.ch.RetrievedJanuary 22,2019.
- ^"Search · EPFL".search.epfl.ch.RetrievedJanuary 22,2019.
- ^Lemonick, Michael D. (February 5, 2006)."Are We Losing Our Edge?".Time.ISSN0040-781X.RetrievedJanuary 22,2019.
- ^"Professor Gabriel Aeppli steps down as Director of the LCN | London Nano".
- ^"Archived copy".Archived fromthe originalon October 30, 2011.RetrievedSeptember 8,2015.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ltd, company check."PROFESSOR GABRIEL AEPPLI director information. Free director information. Director id 912493383".Company Check.RetrievedJanuary 22,2019.
- ^"Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)::".Archived fromthe originalon September 5, 2015.RetrievedSeptember 8,2015.
- ^"Gabriel Aeppli | Royal Society".royalsociety.org.RetrievedOctober 2,2019.
- ^"2008 Mott medal and prize".Institute of Physics.RetrievedDecember 26,2019.
- ^"2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient".www.aps.org.RetrievedOctober 2,2019.
- ^"Workshop Frontiers. Gabriel Aeppli"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on September 15, 2015.RetrievedSeptember 8,2015.
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- Scientists from Zürich
- MIT School of Engineering alumni
- 21st-century American physicists
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- NEC people
- Quantum information scientists
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners