Yale's Girvin honored for his work on quantum states of matter.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-16 November 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale's Girvin honored for his work on quantum states of matter(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14112006 New Haven, Conn. - Steven M. Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, jointly with James P. Eisenstein of Caltech, and Allan H.

MacDonald of the University of Texas at Austin, will receive the Oliver E. Buckley award of the American Physical Society (APS), the most distinguished award in condensed matter physics. The prize, including an honorarium and certificate, will be presented at the APS March 2007 meeting in Denver, Colorado, at a special ceremonial session. His citation reads, "For their fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron...