From 1954 to 1960 I attended Roxbury Latin School, in West Roxbury, outside Boston.  After undergraduate study at Amherst College (BA 1964) and graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley  (PhD 1969 supervised by Marvin L. Cohen ), I spent two years at Bell Laboratories  in Murray Hill, NJ.  Since 1971 I have worked in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Stony Brook University . Sabbaticals and leaves have been spent at the Cavendish Lab, University of California, Berkeley, the Max-Planck Institut (Stuttgart)  (under sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ), the Naval Research Lab, Brookhaven National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, IRRMA  (at the EPFL Lausanne) and the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Geneva, and most recently (2002-2003) at Columbia University, with funding from the Guggenheim Foundation . I frequently spend a day at Brookhaven National Lab, to work with friends in various departments. 

Recently, my research has switched a little from mainstream solid state physics into two hot areas: nanoscience and earth & planetary materials physics. To initiate the nanoscience part, from Sept. 22-25, 2002, my friends and I organized a workshop " Electron-Phonon Effects in Nanosystems" (EPENS'02) in Montauk NY. To initiate the earth & planetary materials part, I joined the VLab consortium, organized by my former postdoc, Renata Wentzcovitch. Current nanoscience research is with the BNL/Stony Brook working group SWaSSiT . We work on solar water splitting.