Conyers Herring
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William Conyers Herring (November 15, 1914 – July 23, 2009) was an American physicist. He was a professor of applied physics at Stanford University and the Wolf Prize in Physics recipient in 1984/5.[1]
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Born | William Conyers Herring (1914-11-15)November 15, 1914 Scotia, New York, U.S. |
Died | July 23, 2009(2009-07-23) (aged 94) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Known for | Weyl semimetal Nabarro–Herring creep Holstein–Herring method |
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Fields | Physics |
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Thesis | On Energy Coincidences in the Theory of Brillouin Zones (1937) |
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Wigner |
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