Lu Jeu Sham
{{Short description|American physicist (born 1938)}}
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| work_institutions = University of California, San Diego
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Lu Jeu Sham (Chinese: 沈呂九) (born April 28, 1938) is an American physicist. He is best known for his work with Walter Kohn on the Kohn–Sham equations. Clary, David C. (2024). [https://doi.org/10.1142/13806 Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel Prize]. World Scientific Publishing.
Biography
Lu Jeu Sham's family was from Fuzhou, Fujian, but he was born in British Hong Kong on April 28, 1938.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} He was graduated from the Pui Ching Middle School in 1955 and then traveled to England for his higher education. He received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics (1st class honours) from Imperial College, University of London in 1960{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} and his PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1963.{{cite web|url=http://physics.ucsd.edu/fac_staff/fac_profile/faculty_description.php?person_id=211|title=UC San Diego - Department of Physics|publisher=Physics.ucsd.edu|accessdate=21 March 2013}} In 1963–1966, he worked with Prof. W. Kohn as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. From 1966 to 1967, Sham worked in University of California, Irvine as assistant professor in Physics and from 1967 to 1968 in Queen Mary College, University of London as a Reader. He joined the faculty of University of California in 1968. Sham was a professor in the Department of Physics at University of California, San Diego, eventually serving as department head.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} He is now a UCSD professor emeritus.
Sham was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/30928.html|title=Lu Jeu Sham|publisher=Nasonline.org|accessdate=22 March 2013}}
Scientific contributions
Sham is noted for his work on density functional theory (DFT) with Walter Kohn, which resulted in the Kohn–Sham equations of DFT.{{cite book|last1=Lalena|first1=John|last2=Cleary|first2=David|year=2010|title=Principles of Inorganic Materials Design|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FhZwYudTCsQC&q=lu+jeu+sham&pg=PA198|page=198|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |accessdate=21 March 2013|isbn=9780470567531}} The Kohn–Sham method is widely used in materials science.{{cite book|last1=Gross|first1=E. K. U.|last2=Dreizler|first2=R. M.|year=1993|title=Density Functional Theory}} Kohn received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for the Kohn–Sham equations and other work related to DFT.
Sham's other research interests include condensed matter physics and optical control of electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures for quantum information processing.
Honors and awards
- Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1998)
- Member of Academia Sinica (1998)
- Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011)
- Fellow of American Physics Society (1977)
- Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) (2009)
- The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (2004)
- The MRS Materials Theory Award (2019)
- Humboldt Foundation Award (1978)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1983)
References
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External links
- [https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/47205 Interview of Lu Sham by David Zierler on October 22, 2020, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA]
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Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:Alumni of Imperial College London
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Computational chemists