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

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

(1951-09-14) 14 September 1951 (age 72)[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/

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