Elihu Abrahams
Elihu Abrahams · Science & Medicine
Condensed matter physicist; co-authored the scaling theory of Anderson localization
1927, New York, USA — 2018, USA
United States
Elihu Abrahams is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Condensed matter physicist; co-authored the scaling theory of Anderson localization
Elihu Abrahams was an American condensed-matter physicist who, with Anderson, Licciardello and Ramakrishnan, co-authored the 1979 'gang of four' paper on the scaling theory of Anderson localization, a foundational result on how disorder can turn a conductor into an insulator. He spent most of his career at Rutgers University. He was Jewish.
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Condensed matter physicist; co-authored the scaling theory of Anderson localization
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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