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Bill Poirier

Professor in Chemistry and Physics at Texas Tech University. Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bill Poirier is Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Professor and also Barnie E. Rushing Jr. Distinguished Faculty Member at Texas Tech University, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and also the Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a chemistry research associateship at the University of Chicago. His research interest is in understanding and solving the Schroedinger equation of quantum mechanics, from both foundational and practical perspectives. He is also the recent author of A Conceptual Guide to Thermodynamics (Wiley, 2014).

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