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Marvin Cohen

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Marvin Cohen · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; theory of the electronic structure of solids and superconductivity

When

1935, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Where

Canada · USA

Biography

Marvin Cohen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; theory of the electronic structure of solids and superconductivity

How & why

Cohen is a theoretical condensed-matter physicist at UC Berkeley whose pseudopotential methods let scientists calculate and predict the electronic structure, properties and even new forms of solids and superconductors from first principles. Among the most cited physicists of his generation, he received the National Medal of Science in 2001. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; theory of the electronic structure of solids and superconductivity

1935

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics