David Snoke
| David W. Snoke | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania American Physical Society |
David W. Snoke is a physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "[f]or his pioneering work on the experimental and theoretical understanding of dynamical optical processes in semiconductor systems." In 2004 he co-wrote a controversial paper with prominent intelligent design proponent Michael Behe.
Snoke received his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked for The Aerospace Corporation and was a visiting scientist and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute.
His research has focused on basic processes and phase transitions of electrons, holes, including nonequilibrium dynamics of electron plasma and excitons, the Mott transition from exciton gas to electron-hole plasma and Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons and polaritons. His research group at the University of Pittsburgh uses stress to trap excitons in confined regions, similar to the way atoms are confined in traps for Bose–Einstein condensation experiments.
In 2004, Snoke co-authored an article with Michael Behe, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, in the scientific journal Protein Science, which received widespread criticism. Behe has stated that the results of the paper support his notion of irreducible complexity, based on the calculation of the probability of mutations required for evolution to succeed. However, the published version did not address the concept directly; according to Behe, all references to irreducible complexity were eliminated prior to the paper's publication at the behest of the reviewers.Michael Lynch authored a response, to which Behe and Snoke responded.Protein Science discussed the papers in an editorial.Protein Science received letters that "contained many points of disagreement with the Behe and Snoke article", including the points that:
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