Sebastian Doniach

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Sebastian Doniach (born 1934 in Paris, France) is a British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University. He works in theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity, and biophysics. He earned a BA from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1954 and a PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1958 with Herbert Fröhlich. He is known for the Lawrence-Doniach model of superconductivity and for a book on Green’s functions in solid-state physics with E. H. Sondheimer. Doniach helped pioneer synchrotron X-ray sources and was the first director of Stanford’s synchrotron facility. His research group uses radiation from the Stanford Synchrotron and the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory to study the structure and dynamics of proteins and RNA. He laid the theoretical groundwork for the Kondo necklace model, an important concept in condensed-matter physics.