17 Facts About John Perdew

John P Perdew was born on August 30,1943 and is a theoretical condensed matter physicist known for his contributions to the fields of solid-state physics and quantum chemistry.

John Perdew began his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow under Sy Vosko at the University of Toronto from 1971 to 1974, and then with David Langreth at Rutgers University from 1975 to 1977.

John Perdew started his teaching career in 1977 at Tulane University, where he taught until 2013.

John Perdew received the Outstanding Researcher Award from Tulane's School of Science and Engineering in 2007 and the President's Awards for Excellence in Professional and Graduate Teaching in 2009.

In 2013, Perdew moved to Temple University, where he is a Laura H Carnell Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Temple's School of Science and Technology, as well as the founding director of the Center for Materials Theory.

In 2023, John Perdew returned to Tulane University as a Professor of Physics.

John Perdew was introduced to DFT by his postdoctoral supervisors at University of Toronto and Rutgers, before it became widely used.

John Perdew was one of the early pioneers of density functional theory, helping it become accurate enough for calculations in quantum chemistry, materials science, and geoscience.

John Perdew made important contributions to the exact adiabatic connection fluctuation dissipation theorem for the -correlation energy, the derivative discontinuity and its contribution to the fundamental gap, scaling and other exact constraints on the functionals, the self-interaction correction, the nonempirical generalized gradient approximation, and the nonempirical meta-GGA.

Visualizing DFT functionals to be a succession of ladder steps, John Perdew formulated the Jacob's Ladder strategy for constructing improved density functionals for the exchange-correlation energy.

John Perdew first presented this theory at the International Congress of Quantum Chemistry's DFT2000 symposium in June 2000, describing five generations of functionals in a sequence he called the Jacob's Ladder.

John Perdew continues DFT research in his role at Tulane University.

John Perdew is one of the world's most cited physicists, with over 410,000 Google Scholar citations referring to his work in the field of density functional theory.

In total, John Perdew has five works among the 10 most-cited physics papers of the past 30 years.

Many of John Perdew's peers recognize his influence on the field of density functional theory.

John Perdew was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

John Perdew was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, and is one of 2,000 distinguished scientists from all fields that help advise the US government on scientific policy.