{{short description|American physicist}} {{for|the Australian cricketer|Robert Swendsen (cricketer)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Robert H. Swendsen | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | fields = Physics | workplaces = Carnegie Mellon University | alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania | thesis_title = The europium chalcogenides as Heisenberg Ferromagnets | thesis_url = https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_999439603503681 | thesis_year = 1971 | doctoral_advisor = Herbert Callen | doctoral_students = | known_for = | awards = }} '''Robert Haakon Swendsen''' is a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/physics/people/faculty/swendsen.html|title=Bob Swendsen - Department of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University|first=Carnegie Mellon|last=University|website=www.cmu.edu}}</ref> He is known in the computational physics community for the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, the Monte Carlo Renormalization Group, and related methods that enable efficient computational studies of equilibrium phenomena near phase transitions. He is the 2014 Recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm|title=2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient|website=www.aps.org}}</ref>

Swendsen completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and his PhD at University of Pennsylvania.

Swendsen is also known for his pedagogy. He received Carnegie Mellon's Julius Ashkin Teaching Award in 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-events/index.html|title=News & Events - Mellon College of Science - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University|first=Carnegie Mellon|last=University|website=www.cmu.edu}}</ref> He is also known for his textbook, ''An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics'' (2nd ed. 2020). Oxford University Press.

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