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William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics Divisio
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
MA
2139
United States
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1 (617) 253-8325
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Background
Professor Lee joined the MIT Department of
Physics in 1982 after approximately ten years with the Theoretical Physics
Department at Bell Laboratories. He has made key contributions to the theory
of disordered electronic systems and is a pioneer in "mesoscopic
physics," the study of small devices at low temperatures. Professor Lee
introduced the concept of universal conductance fluctuations to describe such
devices. For this, and other contributions to condensed matter physics, he
was awarded the 2005 Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical
Physics and the Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society.
Professor Lee's current research interests focus on high temperature
superconductors.Professor Lee's main research interests lie in the study of
strongly correlated electronic systems. These are materials where the
interactions between electrons play a crucial role and lead to novel
phenomena not explainable by single electron band structure effects. Examples
include the quantum Hall effect, mesoscopic systems, and effects due to
disorder.