Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read | |
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| Born | November 22, 1958 London, England |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London Cambridge University |
| Known for | Composite fermion model for quantum Hall systems |
| Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter theory |
| Institutions | Yale University |
Nicholas Read FRS (born November 22, 1958) is a British-born American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.
Biography
[edit]Read was born in London, England on November 22, 1958.[1] He was educated at Langley Park School for Boys in Beckenham and completed his undergraduate education at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in Mathematics in 1980 and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics the following year.[1][2] He completed his PhD at Imperial College London in 1986,[1] after which he moved to the United States.[3] Read worked as a post-doctoral researcher, first at Brown University, and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Yale University as an assistant professor in 1988, where he is Henry Ford II Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics.[4]
Read's early work concerns understanding properties of rare-earth "heavy-fermion" compounds.[4] Along with Greg Moore, he developed the theory of non-Abelian braiding statistics in quantum Hall systems. He developed a theory of composite fermions, which can be used to explain properties of free electron gas at high magnetic fields, in quantum Hall liquids and half-filled Landau levels. Read was awarded the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize together with Jainendra Jain and Robert Willet "For theoretical and experimental work establishing the composite fermion model for the half-filled Landau level and other quantized Hall systems".[4]
Honours
[edit]- Shared the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
- Fellow of the American Physical Society[3]
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Shared the 2015 Dirac Medal of ICTP[5]
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2020[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Array of contemporary American physicists". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
- ^ "Tripos results at Cambridge". The Times. June 27, 1980. p. 10.
- ^ a b Romanyshyn, Jonathan (December 7, 2001). "Physics professor wins Buckley Prize". Yale Daily News. Archived from the original on September 21, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c "2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
- ^ "2015 Dirac Medallists announced". August 9, 2015.
- ^ "Biography at Royal Society".
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