Sebastian Doniach

Sebastian Doniach is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics and Physics at Stanford University. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity, and biophysics.

Doniach received a B.A. from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1954, and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool with supervisor Herbert Fröhlich in 1958.

His contributions to the field of condensed matter physics include the Lawrence-Doniach model of superconductivity and his book on Green’s functions in solid state physics with E. H. Sondheimer. Sebastian Doniach is a pioneer of synchrotron X-ray sources and served as the first director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a division of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His research group at Stanford currently uses radiation from the Stanford Synchrotron and from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory to study protein and RNA structure and dynamics.