Xiao-Gang Wen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Xiao-Gang Wen

condensed matter physicist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1961

Place of Birth: Beijing, China

Profession: physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Xiao-Gang Wen (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Wén Xiaogang; born November 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American physicist.
He is a Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
His expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systems.
In Oct.
2016, he was awarded the Oliver E.
Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. He is the author of a book in advanced quantum many-body theory entitled Quantum Field Theory of Many-body Systems: From the Origin of Sound to an Origin of Light and Electrons (Oxford University Press, 2004).