Professor Emeritus
Office: 401 Physics Building
Phone: (530) 219-9302
Email: bmklein@ucdavis.edu
Personal Professional Website:
http://klein.physics.ucdavis.edu
Research Interests:
Condensed matter theory, electronic structure theory; superconductivity, alloys, magnetism, lattice vibrations, defects, mechanical properties.
Research Areas
Career History
- Ph.D., New York University, 1969
- Research Associate, Naval Research Laboratory, 1969-1971
- Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory, 1971-1978
- Lecturer, George Mason University, 1972-1975
- Head, Electronic Structure of Solids, 1978-1985
- Section, Naval Research Lab, 1978-1985
- Head, Condensed Matter Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, 1985-1988
- Office of Strategic Planning Staff Naval Research Laboratory, 1988-1989
- Head, Complex Systems Theory Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, 1989-1992
- Professor, University of California, Davis, 1992-Present
- Chair, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, 1992-1998
- Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, University of California, Davis, 1998-2001
- Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Davis, 2001-2010
Honors
- Member of Tau Beta Pi
- Member of Sigma Pi Sigma
- Elected Fellow and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics, London, U.K., 1999
- Elected member of the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society, 1998-2000
- Invited participant, Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Materials Research, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997
- Chair, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society, 1996-1997
- Chair-Elect, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society, 1995-1996
- Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1995
- Elected Vice-Chair, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society, 1994-1995
- Elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1993
- Recipient of Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, August 1992
- NRL Special Achievement Award, Superior Performance, 1983
- NRL Merit Pay Award, 1982, 1983
- Quality Salary Increase, Naval Research Laboratory, 1980
- Naval Research Laboratory Publication Award - Basic Research Materials Sciences Division, 1974 & Radiation Technology Division, 1978
- National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship at the Naval Research Laboratory, 1969-1971
- NASA Predoctoral Fellowship, New York University, 1963-1966
- Samuel F.B. Morse Medal Outstanding Physics Student, New York University, 1962
- New York City Mayor