Elihu Abrahams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American physicist
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1927
Place of Birth: Port Henry, New York, United States
Date of Death: 18-Oct-2018
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Elihu Abrahams
- Elihu Abrahams (April 3, 1927 – October 18, 2018) was a theoretical physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics.
- He is mostly notable for his work on electron transport in disordered systems. Abrahams attended Brooklyn Technical High School, graduating in 1944.
- In 1947 Abrahams received his bachelor's degree and in 1952 his PhD, with Charles Kittel as thesis advisor, from the University of California, Berkeley with thesis Spin-lattice relaxation in ferromagnetics.
- In 1952–1953 he was a research associate in physics at UC Berkeley.
- He was in 1953–1955 a research associate and in 1955–1956 an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- In 1956 he became an assistant professor, then an associate professor, and in 1964 a full professor at Rutgers University.In 1979 Abrahams, Philip W.
- Anderson, Donald Licciardello and T.V.
- Ramakrishnan published the highly influential paper “Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions” in Physical Review Letters 42.
- Often referred to as the “gang of four paper” in physics circles, the authors proposed new, precise predictions about the behavior of electrons in disordered materials.
- In 2003 the American Physical Society named it among the top-ten most often cited papers published in the Physical Review. Abrahams’ research is in theoretical condensed matter physics.
- His main interests concern the quantum-mechanical many-body problem in the presence of very strong particle-particle interactions.
- In this area, he has been using the techniques of quantum statistical mechanics and field theory to investigate the phase transitions and the transport and thermodynamic properties of a number of systems, including high-temperature cuprate superconductors, metals at the threshold of breakdown of Fermi-liquid behavior, iron pnictide superconductors, heavy-fermion metals, localized spins in metals, magnets with unusual spin correlations, and the disordered interacting electron fluid in two dimensions. In 1964 Abrahams was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1986–1987.
- He was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.
- In 2018, he received the 2019 Oliver E.
- Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize for "pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity" together with Alexei L.
- Efros and Boris I.
- Shklovskii.
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