[4] Schick obtained his BA in Physics and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University.
He pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, earning his PhD in Physics under the supervision of Felix Bloch in 1967.
Campbell, conducted a detailed analysis of the phase transition in the system of helium atoms adsorbed on a graphite substrate.
It provided insights into the conditions for the transition, one known to exhibit the same singularities in its free energy as that of the two-dimensional three-state Potts model.
In doing so, they were able to employ a simple real-space renormalization-group transformation that illuminated the reasons for the model's unusual behavior in two dimensions.
The work also suggested values for tricritical exponents of the Potts lattice gas.
Matsen and Schick elucidated the behaviour of systems of linear polymers consisting of alternating blocks of two different molecules that repel one another.
[11] The more recent work concerns how it could come about that the lipid molecules that make up the plasma membrane, rather than being distributed randomly, could form two distinct regions.
The characteristic size is directly related to the surface tension and bending modulus of the membrane itself.