Education
Nelson graduated from Cornell University Summa cum laude in 1972, with a Mississippi in 1974, and with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1975. He was in the fourth and final class of Cornell"s short-lived "Six-year Doctor of Philosophy program".
physicist university professor
Nelson graduated from Cornell University Summa cum laude in 1972, with a Mississippi in 1974, and with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1975. He was in the fourth and final class of Cornell"s short-lived "Six-year Doctor of Philosophy program".
Foreign the Massachusetts state representative and Bristol County Sheriff, see Nelson (politician) Nelson (born September 5, 1951, Stuttgart) is an American physicist, and Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics, at Harvard University. Since 1978 he has been a professor at Harvard University. His research is in the field of condensed matter.
Together with Bertrand Halperin, he has established the theory of dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions.
National Academy of Sciences.