Farid F. Abraham

Who is Farid F. Abraham?

Farid F. Abraham is an American scientist.

By pioneering new methods of using computer modeling in research, Abraham has made seminal contributions to science in the fields of fracture mechanics, membrane dynamics and phase transformation behavior of matter. He has authored two textbooks and over 200 papers published in international journals, including several cover articles including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature. He won the Aneesur Rahman Prize in Computational Physics, which is the highest prize given by the American Physical Society.

Abraham is a native of Phoenix, Arizona and received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Arizona. He spent two postdoctoral years at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago and two years as a research scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. He joined IBM in 1966 as a staff member at its Palo Alto Scientific Center. In 1971, Abraham was named the first Consulting Professor at Stanford University and developed a graduate course in computational applied science in the Materials Science Department. In 1972, he moved to the IBM Research Division's San Jose Research Laboratory, known since 1985 as the Almaden Research Center. During 1994, Abraham held the Sandoval Vallarta Chair at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.