Pablo Etchegoin Explained

Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin
Birth Date:	12 September 1964
Birth Place:	La Plata, Argentina
Death Date:	29 April 2013
Alma Mater:	University of Stuttgart
Thesis Year:	1994

Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin (12 September 1964 – 29 April 2013) was an Argentine-New Zealand physicist.

Academic career

Born in 1964 in La Plata, Argentina, he obtained a BSc in electrical engineering from the National University of La Plata and then The Institute of Physics José A Balseiro where he obtained a BSc in physics in 1989. He completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart with Manuel Cardona in 1994 and spent time at the University of Cambridge before moving to Victoria University of Wellington in 2003, where he built a Raman spectroscopy lab. In 2004, he was awarded the T. K. Sidey Medal, an award set up by the Royal Society of New Zealand for outstanding scientific research.^{[1] [2]} He died of pancreatic cancer in 2013.^{[3] [4]}

External links

• google scholar
• institutional homepage
• Memorial page by the MacDiarmid Institute
• Obituary by the Royal Society of New Zealand

Notes and References

1. Web site: Background of the Medal . . 7 August 2015.
2. Web site: Recipients . . 7 August 2015.
3. Web site: Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand . Royalsociety.org.nz . 2014-07-30.
4. Web site: 2013 News - School of Chemical and Physical Sciences – Victoria University of Wellington . Victoria.ac.nz . 2014-07-30.