Charles Kittel
Charles Kittel | |
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| Born | July 18, 1916 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 15, 2019 (aged 102) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Muriel A. Lister |
| Children | 3 |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | The fine structure of nuclear energy levels on the alpha model (1941) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gregory Breit |
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Charles Kittel (July 18, 1916 – May 15, 2019) was an American physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and was professor emeritus from 1978 until his death. He is known for co-introducing the Ruderman–Kittel–Kasuya–Yosida interaction models and for his famous undegraduate textbook Introduction to Solid State Physics.