Biography: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.

Education and career

Mahan earned an B.A. 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 has 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

Selected publications

Books

• Mahan, G.D. (1990). Many particle physics (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-0-306-43423-5. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0PPjBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Many+particle+physics+mahan+2nd+edition&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Many%20particle%20physics%20mahan%202nd%20edition&f=false. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2011). Condensed Matter in a Nutshell (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14016-2. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v3FVOH2XK4gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Condensed+Matter+in+a+Nutshell+mahan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9_bjw5aDRAhVkB8AKHS7TBn4Q6wEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Condensed%20Matter%20in%20a%20Nutshell%20mahan&f=false. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2009). Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13713-1. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uD_zIEEVc7UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gerald+d+mahan&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=gerald%20d%20mahan&f=false. 
• Mahan, G.D.; Subbaswamy, K.R. (1990). Local Density Theory of Polarizability. Plenum Press. ISBN 978-1-4613-5493-2. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hXWmD0zhd9wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gerald+d+mahan&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=gerald%20d%20mahan&f=false. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2002). Applied Mathematics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4613-5493-2. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HfrxBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=gerald+d+mahan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCwrbV76DRAhXpDsAKHXV2BM0Q6wEILjAD#v=onepage&q=gerald%20d%20mahan&f=false. 
• Cahn, S.B.; Mahan, G.D.; Nadgorny, B.E. (2004). A Guide to Physics Problems (Part 2): Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and quantum mechanics. Kluwer academic publishers. ISBN 0-306-45291-X. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U2kKBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+Guide+to+Physics+Problems:+Part+2:+Thermodynamics,+Statistical+Physics+and+quantum+mechanics+By+Sidney+B.+Cahn,+Gerald+D.+Mahan,+Boris+E.+Nadgorny&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_4IaV6KDRAhXHLsAKHbxTBwoQ6wEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=A%20Guide%20to%20Physics%20Problems%3A%20Part%202%3A%20Thermodynamics%2C%20Statistical%20Physics%20and%20quantum%20mechanics%20By%20Sidney%20B.%20Cahn%2C%20Gerald%20D.%20Mahan%2C%20Boris%20E.%20Nadgorny&f=false. 

Papers

• Mahan, G.D. (2009). "Kapitza resistance between a metal and a nonmetal". Phys. Rev. B 79: p. 075408. 
• Duarte, N.; Mahan, G.D.; Tadigadapa, S. (2009). "Thermopower enhancement in nanowires via junction effects". Nano Letters 9: p. 617–622. doi:10.1021/nl802882h. Bibcode: 2009NanoL...9..617D. 
• Jeon, G.S.; Mahan, G.D. (2009). "Lattice vibrations of a single-wall boron nitride nanotube". Phys. Rev. 79: pp. 085424. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2010). "Theory of surface polaritons and image potentials in polar crystals". Phys. Rev. B 81: p. 195318. 
• M. W. Cole, V. H. Crespi, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, J. E. Fischer, H. Rodriguez Gutierrez, K. Kojima, G. D. Mahan, A. M. Rao, J. O. Sofo, M. Tachibana, K. Wako, Q. Xiong (2010). "Structural, electronic, optical and vibrational properties of nanoscale carbons and nanowires: a colloquial review". J. Phys. Condens. Matter 22: pp. 334201. .
• M. W. Cole, V. H. Crespi, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Mahan, and J. O. Sofo (2010). "Peter Clay Eklund: a scientific biography". J. Phys. Condens. Matter 22: pp. 330301. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2010). "Quantization of surface polaritons". Phys. Rev. B 82: p. 165318. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2011). "Thermal Transport in AB superlattices". Phys. Rev. B 83: p. 125313. 
• Mahan, G.D. (2011). "The tunneling of heat". Appl. Phys. Lett. 98: pp. 132106. doi:10.1063/1.3541885. Bibcode: 2011ApPhL..98b2106W. 
• Mahan, G.D.; Berland, K. (2011). "Theory of polar corrections to donor binding". Phys. Rev. B 84: p. 235203. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.035203. Bibcode: 2011PhRvB..84c5203C. 

External links

• "Gerald Dennis Mahan". http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/gdm12. Retrieved 2 May 2016. 
• "Gerald Dennis Mahan". http://journals.aps.org/search/results?sort=relevance&clauses=%5B%7B%22operator%22:%22AND%22,%22field%22:%22all%22,%22value%22:%22gerald%20dennis%20mahan%22%7D%5D. Retrieved 1 January 2017. 
• "Gerald Dennis Mahan". http://history.aip.org/history/ead/eaccpf/11605037.html. Retrieved 1 January 2017. 
• "Gerald Dennis Mahan". http://history.aip.org/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?mahang. Retrieved 17 January 2017. 
• "Mahan, Gerald D.". http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-131965/. Retrieved 17 January 2017.