Paul Chaikin

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Paul Chaikin (born November 14, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist. He was a student of Richard Feynman at Caltech. He co-wrote Principles of Condensed Matter Physics with T.C. Lubensky. He currently teaches at New York University and lives in Manhattan. Currently, Professor Chaikin is teaching an undergraduate physics course on Electricity and Magnetism. He is well known in the regime of soft condensed matter physics, and he has recently received praise for his research in packing of oblate spheroids.

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