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John D. Joannopoulos

American physicist
Person human Q20203230

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[19]
Date of birth
April 26, 1947
Date of death
August 17, 2025
Place of birth
New York City
Country of citizenship
United States[6]
Occupation
physicist, university teacher
Employer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology[8]
Field of work
physics[7]
Educated at
University of California, Berkeley[9]
Award received
Max Born Award, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship[11][12][13][14][15][16]
Doctoral advisor
Marvin L. Cohen[10]
Doctoral student
Shanhui Fan, Efthimios Kaxiras, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Steven G. Johnson, Tomás Arias, Robert B. Laughlin[20][21][22][23][24][25]
Student of
Marvin L. Cohen[27]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[28]
Given name
John[26]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[29]
Member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences[17][18]
🏷️ Also known as
en John D. Joannopoulos en John Joannopoulos en John Dimitris Joannopoulos en John D Joannopoulos cs Dž. Džounopulos cs J. D. Joannopoulos he ג'ון ד. ג'ואנופולוס ru Джоаннопулос, Джон ru Джон Джоаннопулос
🔖 Identifiers · 35
ISNI
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ORCID iD
0000-0002-7244-3682
VIAF cluster ID
108575458
Library of Congress authority ID
n83198227
GND ID
172169437
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Joannopoulos 2010 cropped blurred.jpg ↗
Academic Tree ID
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Awards & Winners artist ID
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BNB person ID (OBSOLETE)
JoannopoulosJD(JohnD)1947-
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
125202697
CANTIC ID
981058512048106706
CONOR.SI ID
38592099
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CiNii Research ID
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Freebase ID
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Google Scholar author ID
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Guggenheim fellows ID
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IdRef ID
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Libraries Australia ID
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MR Author ID
250749
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
16952
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00834993
NL CR AUT ID
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NLA Trove people ID
1253275
NUKAT ID
n98020657
National Academy of Sciences member ID
38738
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007437080105171
National Library of Latvia ID
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National Library of Poland MMS ID
9812829174705606
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
238076040
Physics History Network ID
11602021
SBN author ID
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SHARE Catalogue author ID
61612
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/e004ef7f-c423-430b-8cc1-6a4635fd5915
ZbMATH author ID
joannopoulos.john-d

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Summary

John D. Joannopoulos was born on April 26, 1947[1], in New York City[2]. He died on August 17, 2025[3]. He worked as a physicist[4] and university teacher[5].

FAQs

Where was John D. Joannopoulos born?

John D. Joannopoulos was born in New York City[2].

What did John D. Joannopoulos do for work?

John D. Joannopoulos worked as a physicist[4] and university teacher[5].

Where did John D. Joannopoulos go to school?

John D. Joannopoulos was educated at University of California, Berkeley[9].

What awards did John D. Joannopoulos receive?

Honors received include Max Born Award[11], Fellow of the American Physical Society[12], Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics[13], and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[14].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . physics.mit.edu. physics.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . optica.org. optica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . rle.mit.edu. rle.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . aps.org. Retrieved . aps.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . aaas.org. aaas.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . aps.org. Retrieved . aps.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [10] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  16. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [21] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  18. [22] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  19. [23] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  20. [24] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  21. [25] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [3] ↑ . news.mit.edu. news.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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