David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States)[1] is an American condensed matter experimental physicist.

He received a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Cornell University.

[2][3] He is the director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange[4] and a Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME).

[3] He previously served as the director of the California Nanosystems Institute and was a professor in the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as an associated faculty member in the department of electrical and computer engineering.

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