Gerald Mahan

Gerald Dennis Mahan (born November 24, 1937) is an American condensed matter physicist, with specific research interests in transport and optical properties of materials, and solid-state devices. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Education and career

Mahan earned an B.A. in Physics in 1959 at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.

Mahan has worked at General Electric Research Laboratory (1963–1967), and has been a professor of physics at the University of Oregon (1967–1973), Indiana University (1973–1984), University of Tennessee (1984–2001), and Pennsylvania State University (2001–present). He has also worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1984–2001).

Awards

Selected publications

Books
  • Mahan, G.D. (1990). Many particle physics (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-0-306-43423-5.
  • Mahan, G.D. (2000). Many particle physics (3rd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-3339-3.
  • Mahan, G.D. (2011). Condensed Matter in a Nutshell (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14016-2.
  • Mahan, G.D. (2009). Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13713-1.
  • Mahan, G.D.; Subbaswamy, K.R. (1990). Local Density Theory of Polarizability. Plenum Press. ISBN 978-1-4613-5493-2.
  • Mahan, G.D. (2002). Applied Mathematics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4613-5493-2.
  • Cahn, S.B.; Mahan, G.D.; Nadgorny, B.E. (2004). A Guide to Physics Problems (Part 2): Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and quantum mechanics. Kluwer academic publishers. ISBN 0-306-45291-X.

Papers
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