Education

Ph.D. (Physics) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.
M.A. (Physics and Philosophy) - First Class Honors, Balliol College, Oxford, 1978.
B.A. (Social Studies) - Summa cum laude, Harvard College, 1976.

Positions held

Postdoctoral Fellow - IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, 1983-1984.
IBM Postdoctoral Fellow - SUNY Stony Brook, 1985.
Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University, 1986-1990.
Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University, 1990-present.
Chairman, Applied Physics, Yale University, 1997-2003

Academic Honors and Memberships

Fellow, American Physical Society, 1993
Trustee, Aspen Center for Physics, 1993
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1990-1991
William L. McMillan Award, 1987
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 1987
Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1987-1992
Rhodes Scholar, 1976-1978