John Bardeen Prize for superconductivity theory

David Pines
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Citation:
“For phonon-mediated pairing of electrons in　conventional superconductors and superfluidity in nuclear matter.”

David Pines received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton in 1950. After holding junior faculty and research positions at Pennsylvania, Iliinois, Princeton, the Niels Bohr Institute, the Ecole Normale Superieure, and the Institute for Advanced Study, he became a Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at UIUC in 1959; there he was the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Study from 1967-70, and a Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics from 1978 until he retired from the teaching faculty and became a Center for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus and  Research Professor of Physics in 1995. Before assuming his present positions as Founding Co-Director of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (1999-) and Distinguished Professor of Physics, U C Davis (2005-), Pines was a Professeur Associe, Universite de Paris. (1962-63), a Visiting Profesor at Nordita (1970), Lorentz Professor, University of Leiden (1971), Fairchild Professor, Caltech (1977-78), a Visiting Professor at the College de France (1989), and a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (2000). The author of four books, he served as Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics from 1973-1997 and since 1961 has been Founding Editor of the Benjamin/AddisonWesley/Perseus/Westview series, “Frontiers on Physics, in which some 103 volumes have appeared. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Feenberg Medal, the Friemann, Dirac, and Drucker Prizes, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served on the Science Policy Committee of the Obama campaign, and currently serves as Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics, and a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute and the Board of Overseers of Sabanci University, Istanbul. Pines received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of St. Andrews in 2009 in recognition of his contributions to theoretical physics and international scientific cooperation. His current research is focused on emergent behavior in quantum matter.

Selection Committee Chair: Philip Phillips