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Gabriel Aeppli

Gabriel Aeppli is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gabriel Aeppli rather than just read about it. In short: Gabriel Aeppli (born 25 November 1956) is a Swiss-American electrical engineer, co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology, professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, also in Switzerland. He has contributed to spectroscopy on the magnetism of disordered systems and on high-temperature superconductors and antif…

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Gabriel Aeppli (born 25 November 1956) is a Swiss-American electrical engineer, co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology, professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, also in Switzerland. He has contributed to spectroscopy on the magnetism of disordered systems and on high-temperature superconductors and antiferromagnetism, identifying magnets with tunable quantum fluctuations that can be used to study the transition between classical and quantum behavior. His work has helped to demonstrate that quantum spin fluctuations underlie exotic superconductivity. He has been the recipient of multiple honors, and he has more than 290 peer-review publications, 14,054 total citations from 9,542 documents, and a h-index of 70.

Life Gabriel, the son of mathematician Alfred Aeppli and Dorothee Aeppli, was born in Zürich 25 November 1956. Shortly after birth, Gabriel Aeppli moved from Zürich with his father to the United States. He lived in London, United Kingdom, from 2002 to 2015, when he moved back to Zürich.

Career He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a B.Sc. in 1978 in mathematics and PhD, M.Sc. & B.Sc, in electrical engineering (1983). He was a research assistant at MIT and an industrial co-op student at IBM. From 1982 he was at the Bell Laboratories hired in 1993 as a distinguished member of the technical staff. From 1996 to 2002, he was a senior research scientist at the NEC Laboratories in Princeton. From 2002, as Quain Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL), he helped to found the London Centre for Nanotechnology, where he acted as director until March 2015. His current technical focus is on the implications of photon science and nanotechnology for information processing and health care. He is a board member of Bio Nano Consulting. Currently, he is the director of synchrotron radiation and nanotechnology at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Research Kondo insulator Scale-free network

Honors 2015 Fellow National Academy of Sciences 2012 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society 2008 Institute of Physics: Mott Medal and Prize 2005 American Physical Society: Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize 2005 Majumdar Memorial Award of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science 2003 Neel Medal (magnetism prize of IUPAP) 2002 Riso National Laboratory Fellow 2002 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 1997 Fellow of the American Physical Society 1996 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science In addition, he has been a member and chairman of many panels, sponsored by the USDOE, American Physical Society, EPSRC, and National Research Council (US), among others.

Books "Neutron Scattering from Random Ferromagnets", Gabriel Aeppli, 1982 - 310 pages "Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Models", Amit Dutta, Gabriel Aeppli, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Diptiman Sen, Cambridge University Press, 28 Jan 2015 - Science - 360 pages

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Gabriel Aeppli

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gabriel Aeppli ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gabriel Aeppli

In research: Gabriel Aeppli appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gabriel Aeppli in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gabriel Aeppli is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 births, 21st-century American physicists, American fellows of the Royal Society, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Gabriel Aeppli outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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