Steven A. Kivelson

Steven Allan Kivelson (born May 13, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist known for several major contributions to condensed matter physics. He is the Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford in 2004, he was a professor of physics at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Kivelson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979, working with C. Daniel Gelatt, Jr. Unfortunately this model does not apply to cuprate superconductors due to the lack of charge–spin separation.

Awards and honors Kivelson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.

He earned the 2025 Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society for "broad and insightful theoretical contributions that have significantly advanced the understanding of correlated quantum systems".

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