Eduardo Fradkin
Eduardo Fradkin | |
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| Born | February 21, 1950 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Composite fermions |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Thesis | Phase Transitions in Lattice Gauge Theories (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard Susskind |
| Doctoral students | Eun-Ah Kim Antonio H. Castro Neto |
Eduardo Hector Fradkin (born February 21, 1950) is an Argentinian theoretical physicist known for working in various areas of condensed matter physics, primarily using quantum field theoretical approaches. He is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he is the director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, and is the author of the books Quantum Field Theory: An Integrated Approach and Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics.