John Joannopoulos

John Joannopoulos
John Joannopoulos
	Joannopoulos in 2010
Born	April 26, 1947; New York City, U.S.
Died	August 17, 2025 (aged 78)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Electronic structure of complex crystalline and amorphous semiconductors (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Marvin L. Cohen
Doctoral students	Eugene J. Mele (1978); Robert B. Laughlin (1979); William Pollard (1979); David Vanderbilt (1981); A. Douglas Stone (1982); Dung-Hai Lee (1982); Douglas C. Allan (1982); Yaneer Bar-Yam (1984); Efthimios Kaxiras (1987); Karin M. Rabe (1987); Mark Needels (1990); Jing Wang (1992); Andrew M. Rappe (1992); Tomás Arias (1992); Karl Brommer (1993); Kyeongjae Cho (1994); Rodrigo Capaz (1996); Jerry Chen (1996); Shanhui Fan (1997); Ickjin Park (1999); Daniel Abrams (1999); Sohrab Ismail-Beigi (2000); Adrian Devenyi (2000); Yoel Fink (2000); Attila Mekis (2000); Tairan Wang (2001); Maksim Skorobogatiy (2001); Steven G. Johnson (2001); Ian Appelbaum (2003); Evan Reed (2003); Joshua Weitz (2003); Dicle Yeşilleten (2003); Torkel Engeness (2003); K.C. Huang (2004); Ya Sha Yi (2004); Chiyan Luo (2004); Michelle Povinelli (2004); Mihai Ibanescu (2005); Matthew Evans (2005); David Chan (2006); Fei Zhou (2006); Peter Bermel (2007); Aristeidis Karalis (2008); Maria Chan (2009); Michael Ghebrebrhan (2010); Alejandro Rodriguez (2010); Alexander McCauley (2011); Sejoong Kim (2011); David Liu (2016);

John D. Joannopoulos (April 26, 1947 – August 17, 2025) was an American physicist, focused in condensed matter theory. He was the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and American Physical Society (APS).