Giovanni Vignale

Giovanni Vignale
Born1957
Napoli, Italy
Alma materScuola Normale Superiore, University of Pisa Northwestern University
Known forCurrent Density Functional Theory, Spin Coulomb drag,

Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid,

The Beautiful Invisible
Scientific career
FieldsDensity Functional Theory, Condensed Matter Theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri
Doctoral advisorKundan S. Singwi
Other academic advisorsFranco Bassani
Websitehttp://faculty.missouri.edu/~vignaleg/

Giovanni Vignale is an Italian American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri. Vignale is known for his work on density functional theory - a theoretical approach to the quantum many-body problem - and for several contributions to many-particle physics and spintronics. He is also the author of a monograph on the "Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid" (with Gabriele F. Giuliani) and a book entitled "The Beautiful Invisible - Creativity, imagination, and theoretical physics".