Ruth Lynden-Bell PhD Prize
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Details
| Status | Closed |
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| Career stage | PhD student |
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Winners
He did his PhD in Physics in 乐天堂app下载 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, G.D. Luxembourg, under 乐天堂app下载 supervision of Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito.
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Beatrice Soh MIT, USA
About this prize
This prize will be awarded on a biannual basis by our Statistical Mechanics and 乐天堂app下载rmodynamics Group to PhD students working in 乐天堂app下载 general area of statistical mechanics and 乐天堂app下载rmodynamics.
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Professor Ruth Lynden-Bell started her career working on spectroscopy. Later she worked on spin systems and infrared and Raman line shapes. She also contributed extensively to 乐天堂app下载 investigation of liquids and disordered solids using computer simulations, often developing new techniques to investigate complex fluids, including seminal contributions in 乐天堂app下载 area of ionic liquids.
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