Steven R. White, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Steven R. White

American physicist

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1959

Place of Birth: Lawton, Oklahoma, United States

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Steven R.
White (born December 26, 1959 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.
He graduated from the University of California, San Diego; he then received his Ph.D.
at Cornell University, where he was a shared student with Kenneth Wilson and John Wilkins. He is most known for inventing the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) in 1992.
This is a numerical variational technique for high accuracy calculations of the low energy physics of quantum many-body systems.
His over one hundred seventy papers on this and related subjects have been used and cited widely—his most cited article has received about four thousand citations.