Nicholas Read

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Nicholas Read
Condensed matter theory
InstitutionsYale University

Nicholas Read

quantum many-body systems
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Biography

Read was born in

PhD at Imperial College London,[1] after which he moved to the United States.[2] 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.[3]

Read's early work concerns understanding properties of

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".[3]

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b "Array of contemporary American physicists". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c "2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
  4. ^ "2015 Dirac Medallists announced". August 9, 2015.
  5. ^ "Biography at Royal Society".