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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorDavid Pines
Dates
June 8, 1924 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Pines, David, 1924-
Additional Forms of Names
Pines, D. (David), 1924-
Biography
Abstract
David Pines is Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California, Davis (2005-present). Other instituitonal affiliations include University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University. His research interests include the theory of many-body systems and theoretical astrophysics.
Important Dates
June 8, 1924Birth, Kansas City (Mo.).
1944Obtained AB, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1948Obtained MA, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1950Obtained PhD in Physics, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1950 – 1952Instructor in Physics, University of Pennsylvania.
1952 – 1955Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Ill.).
1955 – 1958Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1957 – 1958National Science Foundation (NSF) Senior Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen.
1958 – 1959Member, Institute for Advanced Study.
1959 – presentProfessor of Physics and Electrical Engineering (1959-1995); Founding Director, Center for Advanced Studies (1967-1970); Professor, Center for Advanced Study (1978-1995); Center for Advanced Study, Professor of Physics (1990-1995); and Research Professor of Physics and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering (1995-present), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Ill.).
1961 – presentSeries Editor, Frontiers in Physics.
1962 – 1963Associate Professor, University of Paris.
1965 – 1966Member, Physics Survey Committee, National Research Council.
1968 – 1980Vice President (1968-1972) and Member, Board of Trustees (1968-1980), Aspen Center for Physics.
1970Visiting Professor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA).
1970Visiting Scientist, Adacemy of Sciences of the USSR.
1973Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1973Visiting Scientist, Academy of Sciences of the People's Republic of China.
1973 – 1980Chair, Board on International Scientific Exchange (1973-1977) and Co-Chair, US/USSR Commission on Cooperation in Physics (1975-1980), National Research Council.
1973 – 1996Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics.
1975 – 1982Member (1975-1982) and Chair (1977-1982), Advisory Committee, Theoretical (T) Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1978Visiting Scientist, Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
1978Exchange Professor, University of Paris.
1979Visiting Scientist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
1979 – 1982Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1984 – 2002Member, Board of Trustees (1984-2002); Vice President (1984-1986); Chair, Board of Trustees (1986-1987); Co-Chair, Science Board (1987-1996); Member, Science Board (1987-1999); External Professor (1989-2002); and Robert Maxwell Professor (1991), Santa Fe Institute.
1985Gordon Godfrey Professor, University of New South Wales.
1985 – 2000Mentor, Defense Sciences Study Group, Institute for Defense Analyses.
1986 – 1987B. T. Matthias Visiting Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1989Professor, College de France.
1994 – 1998Chair, Panel on Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences.
1996 – 1997S. Ulam Visiting Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1996 – 1999Chair, Physics Section, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1998Visiting Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
1999 – presentStaff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1999 – presentFounding Co-Director, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter.
2000Visiting Fellow-Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge University.
2005 – presentDistinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis (Calif.).
Occupation
Theoretical astrophysicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
PhD advisor at Princeton University on the role of plasma oscillations in electron interactions.
Advised by Pines at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Nozières, P. (Philippe)
Co-wrote the book The Theory of Quantum Liquids.
Colleagues
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Anderson, A. C. (Ansel Cochran), 1933-
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Pennsylvania.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Cooper, Leon N. (Leon Neil), 1930-
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Drickamer, H. G. (Harry George), 1918-2002
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at University of Pennsylvania.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Pennsylvania.
Jackson, John David, 1925-2016
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Kerst, Donald William, 1911-1993
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Overhauser, Albert Warner, 1925-
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wightman, A. S. (Arthur Strong), 1922-2013
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Additional
Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-
Hoddeson, Lillian
Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-1996
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Salpeter, Edwin E.
Schrieffer, J. R. (John Robert), 1931-
Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.)
Tomonaga, Shin'ichiro, 1906-1979
Institutions
Major Positions
Akademiia nauk SSSR
Visiting Scientist.
Collège de France
Professor.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Member.
Kungl. Tekniska högskolan
Visiting Professor.
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
Visiting Scientist.
Nordisk institut for teoretisk atomfysik
Visiting Professor.
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Obtained MA (1948) and PhD (1950). Assistant Professor.
Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Member, Board of Trustees; Chair, Board of Trustees; Co-Chair, Science Board; Member; Science Board; External Professor; Robert Maxwell Professor; and Vice President.
Université de Paris
Associate Professor and Exchange Professor.
University of California, Davis. Department of Physics
Distinguished Professor of Physics.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for Advanced Study
Founding Director; Professor; and Professor of Physics.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics
Research Assistant Professor; Professor of Physics; Research Professor of Physics; and Professor Emeritus of Physics.
University of New South Wales
Gordon Godfrey Professor.
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Instructor in Physics.
Zhongguo ke xue yuan
Visiting Scientist.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Physics Section.
Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics.
Aspen Center for Physics
Member, Board of Trustees and Vice President.
Frontiers in physics
Series Editor.
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
Founding Co-Director.
Institute for Defense Analyses
Mentor, Defense Sciences Study Group.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Member and Chair, Advisory Committee, Theoretical (T) Division; Staff Member; B. T. Matthias Visiting Scholar; and S. Ulam Visiting Scholar.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Chair, Panel on Condensed Matter Physics and Member.
National Research Council (U.S.)
Member, Physics Survey Committee; Chair, Board on International Scientific Exchange; and Co-Chair, US/USSR Commission on Cooperation in Physics.
Niels Bohr institutet
National Science Foundation (NSF) Senior Fellow.
Trinity College (University of Cambridge)
Visiting Fellow-Commoner.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Obtained AB (1944).
University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute for Theoretical Physics
Member, Advisory Board.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
John Bardeen Memorial Symposium [videorecording] / 1992 March 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Pines, 1981 April 13 and 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Murray Gell-Mann papers, 1931-2001 (bulk 1955-1993).
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Slichter, 2005 March 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Bohm, 1981 May 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Robert Schrieffer, 1974 September 26 and 1976 January 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. W. Anderson, 1988 May 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999 March 30, May 30, November 23 and June 29, 2000.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Sam Schweber, 1998 October 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Complexity : metaphors, models, and reality / editors, George Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer.
Elementary excitations in solids : lectures on phonons, electrons and plasmons / David Pines.
The many-body problem : a lecture note and reprint volume / Daivd Pines.
The theory of quantum liquids / by David Pines and Philipe Nozières.