User:Maschen/Gerald Mahan

Gerald Dennis Mahan (born November 24, 1937) is an American condensed matter physicist, with specific research interests in transport and optical properties of materials, and solid-state devices. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has worked at Indiana University and Pennsylvania State University.

Education and career
Mahan earned an A.B. in Physics in 1959 at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.

Mahan has worked at General Electric Research Laboratory (1963–1967), and been a professor of physics at the University of Oregon (1967–1973), Indiana University (1973–1984), University of Tennessee (1984–2001), and Pennsylvania State University (2001–present). He has also worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1984–2001).

Awards

 * National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1959–1961
 * Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1968–1970
 * Fellow, American Physical Society, 1974–present
 * Luther Dana Waterman Research Award, 1979, co-winner, Outstanding Scientist at Indiana University
 * Dushman Award, 1984, co-winner, General Electric Company, for development of the ZnO Varistor
 * Centennial Medal, Catholic University of Chile, 1989
 * Member, National Academy of Sciences, since 1995
 * Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005
 * Eberly College of Science Medal, 2007
 * Foreign Member, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, Göteborg, Sweden, 2008
 * Erasmus Mundas Lecturer of the European Union, April 2011