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Duncan Haldane
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Haldane in 2016
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Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane
14 September 1951 London, England
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| 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 Quantum anomalous Hall effect |
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| Fields | Condensed matter theory |
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| 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 |
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (born 14 September 1951) is a British-born physicist. He is a professor of physics at Princeton University. In 2016, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz. They were recognized for their work on how materials can have strange, unexpected properties.
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Education and Early Career
Duncan Haldane went to St Paul's School, London. He then studied at Christ's College, Cambridge University. He earned his first degree there, and later his PhD in 1978. His research supervisor was a famous physicist named Philip Warren Anderson.
After finishing his studies, Haldane worked as a physicist in France. This was at the Institut Laue–Langevin from 1977 to 1981.
Career and Discoveries
In 1981, Haldane moved to the United States. He became a physics professor at the University of Southern California. He worked there until 1987. Then, he joined the physics department at the University of California, San Diego.
In 1990, Haldane became a professor at Princeton University. He is still there today. He was named the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics in 1999. Later, in 2017, he became the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics.
Haldane is famous for his important work in condensed matter physics. This field studies the physical properties of matter. He helped explain how materials behave at very tiny scales. His work includes understanding things like:
- How electrons move in one-dimensional materials.
- The strange behavior of electrons in strong magnetic fields, known as the fractional quantum Hall effect.
- Other complex properties of materials.
His research has helped scientists understand new and unusual states of matter. These are states that don't fit into the usual categories of solid, liquid, or gas.
Awards and Recognition
Duncan Haldane has received many important awards for his scientific work.
- In 1992, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1996. This is a very old and respected scientific academy in the UK.
- He also became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986.
- In 1993, he won the Oliver E. Buckley Prize. This award is given for important discoveries in condensed matter physics.
- He received the Dirac Medal in 2012. This medal honors scientists who have made major contributions to theoretical physics.
- In 2017, he was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
The biggest award came in 2016. Duncan Haldane shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz. They won for their "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." This means they found new ways to describe how matter can change its state in unexpected ways. Their work uses a branch of math called topology.
Personal Life
Duncan Haldane holds citizenship in both the United Kingdom and Slovenia. He is also a permanent resident of the United States. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, Odile Belmont.
His mother was from Slovenia. She met his father, a British Army doctor, when he was stationed near the Yugoslavia/Austria border. They later moved to England, where Duncan was born. In 2019, he officially received Slovenian citizenship.
See also
In Spanish: Duncan Haldane para niños
- Haldane–Shastry model
- Fractional quantum Hall effect
- Quantum spin Hall effect
- Photonic topological insulator
- Spin–charge separation
