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James S. Langer

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According to his profile at UCSB, Langer's research focuses on theories of nonequilibrium phenomena, including the kinetics of
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Theories of nonequilibrium phenomena and pattern formation in condensed matter physics.
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as professor. Between 1989 and 1995, he served as its director.
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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from 2001 to 2005. He was the founding editor of the
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Langer, Biosketch" 216:at Birmingham, his thesis advisor was 254:in 2000 and as vice president of the 7: 1188:Taylor Allderdice High School alumni 368:10.1146/annurev-co-1-072910-100001 250:Langer served as president of the 25: 226:Institute for Theoretical Physics 1223:20th-century American physicists 1218:21st-century American physicists 206:Carnegie Institute of Technology 200:in 1934, Langer graduated from 1: 202:Taylor Allderdice High School 183:American Professor of Physics 708:Charles Christian Lauritsen 1249: 1213:Scientists from California 577:William Francis Gray Swann 222:Carnegie Mellon University 110:Carnegie Mellon University 60:Carnegie Mellon University 1144:Sylvester James Gates Jr. 488:Edward Leamington Nichols 252:American Physical Society 177: 88: 881:Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. 714:John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 542:Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 210:University of Birmingham 198:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 64:University of Birmingham 899:Arthur Leonard Schawlow 655:Arthur Jeffrey Dempster 643:Percy Williams Bridgman 518:Robert Andrews Millikan 798:John Archibald Wheeler 685:Francis Wheeler Loomis 619:John Torrence Tate Sr. 506:Benjamin Osgood Peirce 464:Henry Augustus Rowland 204:in 1951. 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James Stephen Langer
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Birmingham
Oliver Buckley Prize
Physicist
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Santa Barbara
Doctoral advisor
Rudolf Peierls
Premi Chandra
Michael L. Falk
Anthony J. Foglia
Amalie Frischknecht
Alain Karma
Charles Lieou
Craig E. Maloney
Michael P. Marder
Robin E. Snyder
James A. Warren
University of California at Santa Barbara
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Taylor Allderdice High School
Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of Birmingham
Marshall Scholar
Rudolf Peierls
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for Theoretical Physics

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