Textbook
Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th EditionISBN: 978-0-471-41526-8
Hardcover
704 pages
November 2004, ©2005
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Charles Kittel did his undergraduate work in physics at M.I.T and
at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He worked in the solid
state group at Bell Laboratories, along with Bardeen and Shockley,
leaving to start the theoretical solid state physics group at
Berkeley in 1951. His research has been largely in magnetism
and in semiconductors. In magnetism he developed the theories of
ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic resonance and the theory of
single ferromagnetic domains, and extended the Bloch theory of
magnons. In semiconductor physics he participated in the first
cyclotron and plasma resonance experiments and extended the results
to the theory of impurity states and to electron-hole drops.
He has been awarded three Guggenheim fellowships, the Oliver Buckley Prize for Solid State Physics, and, for contributions to teaching, the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, He is a member of the National Academy of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.