Ned Wingreen | |
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Born | Ned S. Wingreen |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Cornell University |
Known for | Meir-Wingreen Formula |
Father | Jason Wingreen |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | NEC Princeton University |
Doctoral advisor | John W. Wilkins |
Ned S. Wingreen is a theoretical physicist and the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences at Princeton University. He is a member of the Department of Molecular Biology and of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, where he is currently director of graduate studies. He is the associate director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, and is also associated faculty in the department of physics. Working with Yigal Meir, Wingreen formulated the Meir-Wingreen Formula which describes the electric current through an arbitrary mesoscopic system.[1]