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Nicholas Read

Nicholas Read

American physicist

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Nicholas Read FRS is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.

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Biography

Read was born in Britain in 1958 and did his undergraduate education at Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at the Imperial College, London 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 has been ever since.[3]

Read's early work concerns understanding properties of rare-earth "heavy-fermion" compounds.[3] 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"[3]

Honours

References

  1. [1]
    "Array of contemporary American physicists". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  2. [2]
    Romanyshyn, Jonathan (December 7, 2001). "Physics professor wins Buckley Prize". Yale Daily News. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
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    "2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
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    "2015 Dirac Medallists announced". 9 August 2015.
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    "Biography at Royal Society".


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