Boris Altshuler
Academic
1955 –
Who is Boris Altshuler?
Boris Altshuler is a professor of physics at Columbia University. His specialty is theoretical condensed matter physics.
Altshuler received his diploma in physics from Leningrad State University in 1976. He continued on at the Leningrad Institute for Nuclear Physics, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in physics in 1979. Altshuler stayed at the institute for the next ten years as a research fellow.
In 1989, Altshuler joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there, he received the Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize and became a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Altshuler left MIT in 1996 to take a professorship at Princeton University. While there, he became affiliated with NEC Laboratories America. Recently, Altshuler has joined the faculty of Columbia and continues to work with the NEC Labs.
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1955
Saint Petersburg - Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Employment
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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