Stephen Bernard Libby

Education and career

Libby received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1977 where he was a student of David Gross. He then became a postdoc at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, and subsequently, worked as a Research Assistant Professor at Brown University. While at Brown, he worked on quantum chromodynamics and factorization theorems with George Sterman as well as quantum theory of Hall effect with Herbert Levin, Aad Pruisken, Robert B. Laughlin and others. In 1986, Libby joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked in applied physics department, developing x-ray laser research. From 1992 to 1994, Libby served as Consulting Professor at Stanford University and then became a member of the National Research Council of its "Rare Isotope Science" Committee.