Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
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 | |
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 F. Duncan M. Haldane during Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016 | |
| Born | Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane 14 September 1951[1] London, England |
| Nationality | British, Slovenian |
| Citizenship |  United Kingdom  Slovenia |
| Education | St Paul's School, London |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Haldane pseudopotentials in the fractional quantum Hall effect |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter theory |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | An extension of the Anderson model as a model for mixed valence rare earth materials (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Warren Anderson |
| Doctoral students | Ashvin Vishwanath |
| Website | physics |
References
change- ↑ "Array of contemporary American physicists". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ↑ 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:
All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.