Steven Kivelson

Steven Allan Kivelson
Born	(1954-05-13)May 13, 1954
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Condensed matter physics
Spouse	Pamela Margaret Davis
Children	Paul Jacob Kivelson, Sophia Clare Kivelson
Scientific career
Institutions	UCSB, UCLA, Stanford University[1]
Thesis	Studies of the Electronic Properties of Localized States in Disordered Insulators[2]  (1979)
Doctoral advisor	C. Daniel Gelatt, Jr.
Other academic advisors	John Robert Schrieffer[3]
Doctoral students	Shivaji Sondhi[4]

Steven Allan Kivelson (born May 13, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist known for several major contributions to condensed matter physics. He is currently the Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford University.^[5] Before joining Stanford in 2004, he was a professor of physics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the son of Margaret Kivelson, an emeritus professor of earth and space sciences at UCLA, and Daniel Kivelson, who was a professor of chemistry, also at UCLA.  His sister, Valerie Kivelson, is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan.