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Steven Gwon Sheng Louie
American physicist

Steven Gwon Sheng Louie

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American physicist
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Age
75 years
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Awards
Fellow of the American Physical Society
 
Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
(1999)
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
(1996)
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Biography

Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (26 March 1949, Taishan, Guangdong, China) is a computational condensed-matter physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research focuses on nanoscience. He is also scientific director of the Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility at the Molecular Foundry.

He was born in Taishan, Guangdong province, China in 1949 and moved to San Francisco when he was 10. His Chinese name is 雷干城 (pinyin: Léi Gānchéng). He received his PhD degree in 1976 from Berkeley, working with Professor Marvin L. Cohen.

Honors

  • 1996 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics (American Physical Society)
  • 1999 Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics (American Physical Society)
  • 2003 Richard P. Feynman Prize in Molecular Nanotechnology (Foresight Institute)
  • 2005 Elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 Materials Theory Award (Materials Research Society)
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