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Pierre Hohenberg Eugene Higgins Adjunct Professor of Physics and Applied Physics |
Pierre Hohenberg, joined the Yale faculty in 1995 as adjunct professor of physics and applied physics and was Deputy Provost for Science and Technology from 1995 to June 2003. His arrival at Yale followed a distinguished career in research on theoretical condensed matter physics at Bell Laboratories. Hohenberg had also become increasingly active in interdisciplinary research at the interaction between physics, mathematics, materials science and biology.
In his work with the American Physical Society, Hohenberg has been involved in formulating policies on public issues ranging from professional ethics to research priorities, national energy policy and national security. He also chaired the society's Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists and was cofounder of the Committee of Concerned Scientists' Program for Refugee Scientists.
Hohenberg is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1990, he was awarded the Fritz London Prize for Low Temperature Physics. He was selected to receive the 1999 Max Planck Medaille, the most prestigious prize given by the German Physical Society for theoretical physics; the first winner of the medal was Albert Einstein in 1929. In 2002, he was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize by the American Physical Society.
Hohenberg graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and wrote his dissertation in physics at Harvard under Professor P.C. Martin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1962.
