Warren E. Pickett

After obtaining the BS and MS degrees from Wichita State University, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Stony Brook University in 1975,{{Cite web |last=Kawazoe |first=Yoshiyuki |title=International Conference on Superconductor |url=https://accms.mobility.niche.tohoku.ac.jp/PRISM2022/index.html |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=accms.mobility.niche.tohoku.ac.jp}} during which he spent a year at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge U.K.

Pickett began his professional career in 1979 as Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., where he contributed to the development of computational methods for understanding the electronic structure of materials. His work earned him the Second Prize in the 1990 IBM Supercomputing Competition.https://www.usc.es/ciqus/sites/default/files/eventos/conferencia_warren_e._picket.pdf Conferencia: Two-dimensionality, Polarity, and Strong Interactions in Oxide Nanostructures Warren E. Picket

In 1997, Pickett joined the University of California Davis as Professor of Physics.{{Cite journal |date=2013 |title=Meet Our Authors-Warren E. Pickett |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-bulletin/article/meet-our-authors/AD118B081ED9CF6674033479A8E201A0#sec12 |journal=MRS Bulletin |language=en |volume=38 |issue=12 |pages=1024–1025 |doi=10.1557/mrs.2013.284 |issn=0883-7694}} He was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2002.Pickett served as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2008 to 2011.

In 1990, just after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Pickett was hosted by the Russian Academy of Science for a week visit at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow, followed by attendance at a conference at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Physics in Dubna.{{Cite web |title=W. Pickett vitae |url=http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/biosketch.html |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=yclept.ucdavis.edu}}

Pickett has been involved in science diplomacy, beginning with American scientists' visits to the USSR during the Cold War.{{Cite web |title=Prof. Warren E. Pickett: Superconductivity - Then and Now (2018/08/28) |url=https://english-icqd.ustc.edu.cn/2018/0827/c9256a310243/page.htm |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=english-icqd.ustc.edu.cn}} Initially supported by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. national academies ,this effort is now backed by the U.S. State Department's Office of Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{Cite web |title=Warren Pickett :: Department of Physics and Astronomy - UC Davis |url=https://physics.ucdavis.edu/directory/faculty/warren-pickett |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=physics.ucdavis.edu}} After attending the 2003 Magnetic and Superconducting Materials (MSM03) in Tunisia, Pickett joined the Steering Committee of this biennial event, which promotes research collaboration with developing countries.{{Cite web |last=Greene |first=Laura H. |title=The Back Page: Hard Line on Sanctions Harms Science Diplomacy |url=https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/201803/backpage.cfm |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=www.aps.org |language=en}} In February 2014, Pickett visited Iran with Nobel laureate Anthony Leggett and physicist Paul Chu to foster scientific exchange despite political sensitivities.{{Cite web |date=2015-07-26 |title=“Diplomacy of Science Can Bring Iran and US Closer,” States Prof. Pickett |url=https://avadiplomatic.com/en/archive/6836 |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=AVAdiplomatic |language=en-US}} During their two-week visit, they gave lectures at four universities and participated in the 4th National Conference on Advanced Superconductivity at Sharif University.{{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=Warren E. |last2=Leggett |first2=Anthony J. |last3=Chu |first3=Paul C. W. |date=2014 |title=Science diplomacy in Iran |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3014 |journal=Nature Physics |language=en |volume=10 |issue=7 |pages=465–467 |doi=10.1038/nphys3014 |issn=1745-2481|url-access=subscription }}

His research has been supported by the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences program, the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, with some early support from the Office of Naval Research.{{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=Warren E. |last2=Moodera |first2=Jagadeesh S. |date=2001-05-01 |title=Half Metallic Magnets |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/54/5/39/908384/Half-Metallic-MagnetsNot-to-be-confused-with |journal=Physics Today |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=39–44 |doi=10.1063/1.1381101 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=Warren E. |date=1989 |title=Electronic structure of the high-temperature oxide superconductors |url=https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.61.433 |journal=Reviews of Modern Physics |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=433–512 |doi=10.1103/revmodphys.61.433 |issn=0034-6861|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=Warren E. |date=1989 |title=Pseudopotential methods in condensed matter applications |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7977(89)90002-6 |journal=Computer Physics Reports |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=115–197 |doi=10.1016/0167-7977(89)90002-6 |issn=0167-7977|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=W. E. |last2=Singh |first2=D. J. |last3=Krakauer |first3=H. |last4=Cohen |first4=R. E. |date=1992-01-03 |title=Fermi Surfaces, Fermi Liquids, and High-Temperature Superconductors |url=https://doi.org/10.1126/science.255.5040.46 |journal=Science |volume=255 |issue=5040 |pages=46–54 |doi=10.1126/science.255.5040.46 |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=Warren E. |last2=Moodera |first2=Jagadeesh S. |date=2001-05-01 |title=Half Metallic Magnets |url=https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1381101 |journal=Physics Today |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=39–44 |doi=10.1063/1.1381101 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Pickett |first=Warren |last2=Eremets |first2=Mikhail |date=2019-05-01 |title=The quest for room-temperature superconductivity in hydrides |url=https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.4204 |journal=Physics Today |volume=72 |issue=5 |pages=52–58 |doi=10.1063/pt.3.4204 |issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Pickett |first1=Warren E. |date=7 April 2023 |title=Colloquium: Room temperature superconductivity: The roles of theory and materials design |url=https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.95.021001 |journal=Reviews of Modern Physics |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=021001 |doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.95.021001|arxiv=2204.05930 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Pickett |first1=Warren E. |date=31 May 1982 |title=Renormalized Thermal Distribution Function in an Interacting Electron-Phonon System |url=https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1548 |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=48 |issue=22 |pages=1548–1551 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1548|url-access=subscription }}

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