Douglas James Scalapino

Douglas James Scalapino (born December 10, 1933, San Francisco, California) is an American physicist noted for his contribution to theoretical condensed matter physics.

Career Scalapino completed his undergraduate degree at Yale in 1955, and his PhD at Stanford in 1961. He then followed Ed Jaynes to become a research associate at Washington University in St. Louis from 1961 to 1962 and then moved to University of Pennsylvania where he attained the rank of full professor in 1969. He is currently a Research Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2013, he and Patrick Lee received the Eugene Feenberg Medal.