Elihu Abrahams

Dr. Elihu Abrahams is the Director at the Center for Materials Theory at Rutgers University and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research is on problems in theoretical condensed matter physics. He uses the methods of quantum statistical mechanics to investigate the many-body problem relevant for the properties of a number of material systems. These include superconductors, disordered alloys, magnetic materials, low-dimensional metals, heavy-electron materials. He has made contributions in all of these areas. Some of his articles include, "Non-exponential relaxation and hierarchically constrained dynamics in a protein", "Effect of impurities on supersolid condensate", and "Electron spin resonance in Kondo systems." Abrahams was in 1964 elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1986–1987. In 1987 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.