Allan H. MacDonald
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Allan H. MacDonald | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Condensed matter physics |
Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Allan H. MacDonald is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair Professor of Physics at
Education and early life
He was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, and attended local schools completing a B.S. at St. Francis Xavier University in 1973. He completed his Ph.D.in physics at The University of Toronto in 1978, working with S.H. Vosko on relativistic generalizations of density functional theory, and on the application of density functional theory to magnetism in metals.
Research and career
Prior to joining the University of Texas, he worked at the Ottawa laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (1978–1987) and at Indiana University (1987–2000). He has held visiting positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
MacDonald's research has focused on new or unexplained phenomena related to the quantum physics of interacting electrons in materials. He has contributed to theories of the integer and
In 2011 MacDonald and
His recent work is focused on anticipating new physics in moire superlattices, and on achieving a full understanding of magic-angle bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenide moire superlattice systems.
Honors and awards
MacDonald received the Canadian Association of Physicists's Herzberg Medal in 1987, the
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