Douglas James Scalapino (born December 10, 1933, San Francisco, California)[1] is an American physicist noted for his contribution to theoretical condensed matter physics.
Scalapino completed his undergraduate degree at Yale in 1955, and his PhD at Stanford in 1961.
[2] He then followed Ed Jaynes to become a research associate at Washington University in St. Louis from 1961 to 1962 and then moved to University of Pennsylvania where he attained the rank of full professor in 1969.
[3][4] He is currently a Research Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[5] In 2013, he and Patrick Lee received the Eugene Feenberg Medal.