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David R. Smith (physicist)

American physicist

David R. Smith is an American physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University in North Carolina and visiting professor at Imperial College London.{{Cite web

Smith obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1988 and 1994. In 2000, as a postdoctoral fellow working in the laboratory of Professor Sheldon Schultz at UCSD, Smith and his colleagues discovered the first material that exhibited a negative index of refraction.{{Citation

For his research in metamaterials, Smith, along with four European researchers, was awarded the Descartes Prize in 2005, the European Union's top prize for collaborative research.{{Cite web

In 2009, Reuters news service listed Smith in the Clarivate Citation laureates in Physics, which considers potential candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics.{{cite web | archive-url= https://archive.today/20120913213121/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS37530+24-Sep-2009+PRN20090924 | url-status= dead | archive-date= 2012-09-13

References

Pendry, John B.. (2004). "Negative Refraction". Contemporary Physics.

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