Carlton M. Caves
American physicist
Carlton Morris Caves is an American theoretical physicist. He is currently professor emeritus and research professor of physics and astronomy
at the University of New Mexico. Caves works in the areas of
physics of information; information, entropy, and complexity; quantum information theory; quantum chaos, quantum optics; the theory of non-classical light; the theory of quantum noise; and the quantum theory of measurement. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Background and education
Caves was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on October 24, 1950, the son of Morris and Mary Caves. He attended public schools in Muskogee and graduated from Muskogee Central High School (now Muskogee High School) in 1968. One of his chief high-school activities was participation in MHS's speech and debate program; his debate partner, Mike Synar, served as Congressperson from the Muskogee district from 1979 to 1994. Caves attended Rice University as an undergraduate, receiving a BA in physics and mathematics in 1972, and then was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in physics in 1979. His PhD research, culminating in a dissertation entitled Theoretical Investigations of Experimental Gravitation, was carried out under the supervision of Kip S. Thorne. As a PhD student, Caves received the Richard P. Feynman Fellowship in 1976–77 and was the first recipient of the Öcsi Bácsi "Deeply Dedicated to Physics" Award in 1976.
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