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Duncan Haldane
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![]() F. Duncan M. Haldane during Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
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Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane
14 September 1951 London, England
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Nationality | British, Slovenian |
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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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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 FRS (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-born physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
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