Alexander Fetter

Alexander Lees ("Sandy") Fetter (born 16 May 1937) is an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University in California. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter and superconductivity. He graduated with a B.A. from Williams College in 1958, where he was valedictorian. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College of Oxford University. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1963.

In 1968, Fetter joined the faculty at Stanford University, and has been there since. He served as chair of the department from 1985 to 1990.

Fetter is a fellow of the American Physical Society He served as the director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials. Fetter has 6 grandchildren the first of whom was born in 1995 and the most recent in 2007.

Selected publications Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, Dover Publications, 2003, Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua, Dover Publications, 2003, Nonlinear Mechanics: A Supplement to Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua, Dover Publications, 2006, Nonuniform states of an imperfect bose gas, Annals of Physics, 1972