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D-Index
75
Citations
30099
World Ranking
3366
National Ranking
1597

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1976 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Best Publications

  • Vegard's law.

    A. R. Denton;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Structure and Resistivity of Liquid Metals

    N. W. Ashcroft;J. Lekner

  • METALLIC HYDROGEN: A HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR.

    N. W. Ashcroft

  • Structure of Binary Liquid Mixtures. I

    N. W. Ashcroft;David C. Langreth

  • Electron-ion pseudopotentials in metals☆

    N.W. Ashcroft

  • Hydrogen dominant metallic alloys: high temperature superconductors?

    N. W. Ashcroft;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Potential high-Tc superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure.

    Hanyu Liu;Ivan I. Naumov;Roald Hoffmann;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Theory of simple classical fluids: Universality in the short-range structure

    Yaakov Rosenfeld;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Weighted-density-functional theory of inhomogeneous liquids and the freezing transition.

    W. A. Curtin;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Pairing in dense lithium

    J. B. Neaton;N. W. Ashcroft

  • The chemical imagination at work in very tight places.

    Wojciech Grochala;Roald Hoffmann;Ji Feng;Neil W. Ashcroft

  • A superconductor to superfluid phase transition in liquid metallic hydrogen

    Egor Babaev;Asle Sudbo;Neil Ashcroft

  • The Fermi surface of aluminium

    N.W. Ashcroft

  • Compressibility and Binding Energy of the Simple Metals

    N. W. Ashcroft;David C. Langreth

  • Modified weighted-density-functional theory of nonuniform classical liquids

    A. R. Denton;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Solutions of the reference-hypernetted-chain equation with minimized free energy

    F. Lado;S. M. Foiles;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Long-wavelength electromagnetic propagation in heterogeneous media

    W. Lamb;D. M. Wood;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Quantum size effects in transport properties of metallic films

    Nandini Trivedi;N. W. Ashcroft

  • Metals physics at ultrahigh pressure: Aluminum, copper, and lead as prototypes.

    W. J. Nellis;J. A. Moriarty;A. C. Mitchell;M. Ross

  • Theory of the Thermodynamics of Simple Liquid Metals

    N.W. Ashcroft;D. Stroud

Frequent Co-Authors

Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
Russell J. Hemley
Russell J. Hemley University of Illinois at Chicago
Jeffrey B. Neaton
Jeffrey B. Neaton University of California, Berkeley
Stephen M. Foiles
Stephen M. Foiles Sandia National Laboratories
Guoying Gao
Guoying Gao Yanshan University
Ard A. Louis
Ard A. Louis University of Oxford
William A. Curtin
William A. Curtin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Roberto Cammi
Roberto Cammi University of Parma
Xiaodong Wen
Xiaodong Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christos N. Likos
Christos N. Likos University of Vienna

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