Xiao-Gang Wen

Xiao-Gang Wen
Born (1961-11-26) 26 November 1961 (age 63)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China
Princeton University
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsInstitute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara

Institute for Advanced Study
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorEdward Witten

Xiao-Gang Wen (simplified Chinese: 文小刚; traditional Chinese: 文小剛; pinyin: Wén Xiǎogāng; born November 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American physicist. He is a Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systems. In Oct. 2016, he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

He is the author of a book in advanced quantum many-body theory entitled Quantum Field Theory of Many-body Systems: From the Origin of Sound to an Origin of Light and Electrons (Oxford University Press, 2004).[1]

  1. ^ Wen, Xiao-Gang (2004). Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems: From the Origin of Sound to an Origin of Light and Electrons. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-853094-7.