Professor
David D. Awschalom
University of Chicago
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
2006
Professor of Physics. Developed new temporal and spatial optical probes of matter for pioneering studies of spin dynamics in semiconductors and nanostructures. Leader in the electrical and optical control of both electron and nuclear magnetization. Discoveries include observation of magnetic polarons, long-lived electron spin coherence, and the spin Hall effect.
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