Peter Pershan [SEP] educated at
Peter Pershan
Peter S. Pershan is a prominent American physicist.
Education and career.
Peter Pershan earned his B.S. at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard University in 1960 for nuclear magnetic resonance under the supervision of Nicolaas Bloembergen. After a short postdoctoral appointment with Bloembergen he was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard University, where he is now a Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, at both Physics Department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Research.
Pershan began
faculty member since 1961) since he arrived as a graduate student in September 1956.
Books.
In addition to over 240 scientific articles Peter Pershan has published two books:
- "Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases", World Scientific, 1988 ()
- "Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces: Synchrotron X-ray Methods" (with Mark Schlossman), Cambridge University Press, 2012. ()
External links.
- Peter Pershan's web page
- Peter Pershan's profile at Harvard