Education
University of Paris; California Institute of Technology. Harvard University.
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Tom Lubensky
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Career
Tom C. Lubensky is an American physicist. Doctor Lubensky received his Bachelor of Surgery in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 and both his Master of Arts (1965) and Doctor of Philosophy (1969) in Physics from Harvard University. He was an National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969-1970) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970-1971).
He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, promoted to associate professor in 1975 and to full professor in 1980.
Achievements
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In 2004 Doctor Lubensky received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for seminal contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems including the prediction and elucidation of the properties of new, partially ordered phases of complex materials. Lubensky also was named to the Patricia M. Williams Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 1998.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences]
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (1985), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), elected member of the (2002) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1975-1977), Guggenheim Fellow (1981), and honored member of the International Liquid Crystal Society.
