Steven Girvin was born in Austin, Texas, on April 5, 1950,[2] and attended high school in Brant Lake, New York, graduating with a class of five students.
[4] His doctoral thesis, published in 1976, was entitled Topics in condensed matter physics: the role of exchange in the lithium k edge and the fluorescence spectrum of heavily doped cadmium sulphide.
Girvin then held a physicist position at the National Bureau of Standards from 1979 to 1987 and a professorship at Indiana University from 1987 to 2001 before joining Yale in 2001.
Girvin, James P. Eisenstein and Allan H. MacDonald won the 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for their "Fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low dimensional systems".
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