Moses H. W. Chan
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Moses Hung-Wai Chan is a physics professor at Penn State University, where he holds the rank of Evan Pugh Professor. He is an alumnus of Bridgewater College and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1974. He has been at professor at Penn State's University Park Campus since 1978.
Through the years, professor Chan's work has spanned many diverse topics.[1] For his numerous contributions to low temperature physics, in 1996 he shared the prestigious Fritz London Memorial prize with Carl Wieman and Eric A. Cornell[2]. He was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000.
Among his most nobable recent contributions is the discovery of the new supersolid quantum state of matter, which is directly complementary to the superfluid, and BEC states.[3]
