David Awschalom

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David Awschalom is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors. He was awarded the 2005 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, and the 2005 Agilent Europhysics Prize by the European Physical Society.

He is a professor of physics and electrical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, and also serves as Director of the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation and Associate Director of the California Nanosystems Institute.

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