Tom C. Lubensky is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Mary Amanda Wood professor of physics

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(1998–2009) and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society

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 (1985), American Association for the Advancement of Science

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 (2000), elected member of the National Academy of Sciences

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 (2002) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

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 (1975–77), Guggenheim Fellow (1981), and honored member of the International Liquid Crystal Society

International Liquid Crystal Society

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. In 2004 Dr. Lubensky received Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for seminal contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems including the prediction and elucidation of the properties of new, partially ordered phases of complex materials. Coauthor of the textbook Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (ISBN 0-521-43224-3) with Paul Chaikin

Paul Chaikin

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, Dr. Lubensky also was named to the Patricia M. Williams Term Chair at the University of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 1998.

Biography

Dr. Lubensky received his B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

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 in 1964 and both his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) in Physics from Harvard University

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. He was an NSF

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 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris

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 in Orsay

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(1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71). He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, promoted to associate professor in 1975 and to full professor in 1980.