David Pines
David Pines · Science & Medicine
Physicist; many-body theory of electrons and plasmons
1924, Kansas City, Missouri, USA — 2018, Urbana, Illinois, USA
United States
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David Pines was an American theoretical physicist who, working with David Bohm, developed the modern many-body theory of interacting electrons and introduced the concept of the plasmon, the quantum of collective electron oscillation in metals. He was a founder of the Santa Fe Institute and a leader in the physics of complex systems. He was of Jewish heritage.
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Physicist; many-body theory of electrons and plasmons
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