Dr. David Goldhaber Gordon

Biography

David Goldhaber-Gordon is a Professor in the Physics Department at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in the Applied Physics Department. He earned an AB in Physics and the History of Science from Harvard University in 1994, followed by a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. His doctoral research focused on the Kondo effect in semiconductor nanostructures, which facilitated the study of this classical system in a new tunable context, igniting a global renaissance in the area. Goldhaber-Gordon then spent several years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the faculty at Stanford. His contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous awards, including the inaugural George E. Valley Prize from the American Physical Society in 2002, the McMillan Award from the University of Illinois, and initiative research awards from various organizations like the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation. He is also noted for receiving multiple young investigator awards from the Navy, Air Force, Sloan Foundation, and others.

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