Education
Chaikin earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech, where he studied under Richard Feynman, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Paul Chaikin
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He currently teaches at New York University and lives in Manhattan. He is well known in the field of soft condensed matter physics and recently received praise for his research in packing of oblate spheroids.
Achievements
Membership
National Academy of Sciences.
Awards
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Sloan Fellowship; Arts and Sciences include a Sloan Fellowship (1979–81), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), and election to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2004). In 2009 he won a World Technology Award for individual contribution in materials research. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.Sloan Fellowship; Arts and Sciences include a Sloan Fellowship (1979–81), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), and election to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2004). In 2009 he won a World Technology Award for individual contribution in materials research. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.
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Sloan Fellowship; Arts and Sciences include a Sloan Fellowship (1979–81), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), and election to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2004). In 2009 he won a World Technology Award for individual contribution in materials research. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.Sloan Fellowship; Arts and Sciences include a Sloan Fellowship (1979–81), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), and election to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2004). In 2009 he won a World Technology Award for individual contribution in materials research. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.