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== Background ==
Kittel received his PhD from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in 1941 under his advisor [[Gregory Breit]].<ref name=cohenObit /> Before being promoted to professor of physics at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] in 1951, Kittel held several other positions. He worked for the [[Naval Ordnance Laboratory]] from 1940 to 1942, was a research physicist in the US Navy until 1945, worked at the
[[Henry Ehrenreich]] has noted that before the first edition of ''Introduction to Solid State Physics'' came out in 1953, there were no other textbooks on the subject; rather, the young field's study material was spread across several prominent articles and treatises.<ref name=Ehrenreich /> The field of solid state physics was very new at the time of writing and was defined by only a few treatises that, in the Ehrenreich's view, expounded rather than explained the topics and were not suitable as textbooks.<ref name=Ehrenreich />
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