David W. Snoke | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania American Physical Society |
David W. Snoke is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh and Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his pioneering work on the experimental and theoretical understanding of dynamical optical processes in semiconductor systems."[1] In 2004 he co-wrote a controversial paper with prominent intelligent design proponent Michael Behe. In 2007, his research group was the first to report Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in a trap.[2] David Snoke and theoretical physicist Jonathan Keeling recently published an article announcing a new era for polariton condensates saying that polaritons are arguably the "...best hope for harnessing the strange effects of quantum condensation and superfluidity in everyday applications." [3]