Paul Steinhardt
American cosmologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1952 · age 73
Paul Joseph Steinhardt is an American theoretical physicist whose principal research is in cosmology and condensed matter physics. He is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, where he is on the faculty of both the Departments of Physics and of Astrophysical Sciences.
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2012John Scott AwardAward2010Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeAward2006Clarivate Citation LaureatesAward2002ICTP Dirac MedalAward1952Born25 December 1952
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Steinhardt at the University of Pennsylvania
Small sample, about 3 mm across, of a Khatyrkite-bearing meteorite (top and bottom left panels)from the mineral collection at the Museo di Storia Naturale in Florence, Italy. On January 2, 2009, Paul Steinhardt and Nan Yao identified the first known natural quasicrystal embedded in the sample (area of discovery indicated by red circle in bottom right panel).
The electron diffraction pattern for icosahedrite, the first natural quasicrystal, obtained by aiming the electron beam down a fivefold axis of symmetry. The patterns correspond perfectly (up to experimental resolution) with the fivefold patterns first predicted by Paul Steinhardt and Dov Levine in the 1980s for an icosahedral quasicrystal.
On location at the Listventovyi stream in the Kamchatka Peninsula in 2011 (left to right): Luca Bindi (University of Firenze, Italy), Valery Kryachko (IGEM, Russia) and Paul Steinhardt (Princeton, US)
Girih tile quasicrystal pattern on right half of spandrel at Darb-e Imam ShrineAwards
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Bertrand HalperinBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
James BjorkenBoth received ICTP Dirac Medal
Andrew StromingerBoth received ICTP Dirac Medal
Pablo Jarillo-HerreroBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Leo KadanoffBoth received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Nathan SeibergBoth received ICTP Dirac Medal