Duncan Haldane

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane FRS[2] (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-born physicist. He is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.[3][4][5]

Duncan Haldane

F. Duncan M. Haldane during Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
Born
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane

(1951-09-14) 14 September 1951[1]
London, England
NationalityBritish, Slovenian
Citizenship United Kingdom
 Slovenia
EducationSt Paul's School, London
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forHaldane pseudopotentials in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Awards
  • Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1993)
  • Dirac Medal (2012)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (2016)
  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter theory
Institutions
ThesisAn extension of the Anderson model as a model for mixed valence rare earth materials (1978)
Doctoral advisorPhilip Warren Anderson
Doctoral studentsAshvin Vishwanath
Websitephysics.princeton.edu/~haldane/

References

  1. "Array of contemporary American physicists". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
  2. Anon (1996). "Professor Frederick Haldane FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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  3. Gibney, Elizabeth; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016). "Physics of 2D exotic matter wins Nobel: British-born theorists recognized for work on topological phases". Nature. 538 (7623). London: Springer Nature: 18. Bibcode:2016Natur.538...18G. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20722. PMID 27708331.
  4. Devlin, Hannah; Sample, Ian (4 October 2016). "British trio win Nobel prize in physics 2016 for work on exotic states of matter – live". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  5. Haldane, F. D. M. (1983). "Nonlinear Field Theory of Large-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Semiclassically Quantized Solitons of the One-Dimensional Easy-Axis Néel State". Physical Review Letters. 50 (15): 1153–1156. Bibcode:1983PhRvL..50.1153H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1153. ISSN 0031-9007.


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