Aharon Kapitulnik
Aharon Kapitulnik (born July 29, 1953 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli physicist and professor at Stanford University .
Kapitulnik studied at Tel Aviv University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1984. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and there for a short time Assistant Professor and from 1985 Assistant Professor of Physics at Stanford University (from 1993 also in the Faculty of Applied Physics). In 1993 he became Associate Professor and in 1994 Professor. At Stanford he is the Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor
He researches correlated and disordered electron systems in solids, especially with reduced dimensions (two-dimensional, one-dimensional). To this end, he developed a Sagnac interferometer for the discovery of time-reversal invariance injurious phenomena in solids. He also researches correlated electron systems such as high temperature superconductors and topological insulators using scanning tunneling microscopy techniques.
He also developed novel instruments for testing the deviation of gravitational force from the law on sub-millimeter scales.
In 2015 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Allen Goldman , Arthur Hebard and Matthew PA Fisher for the discovery and research of superconductor-insulator transitions as a paradigm of quantum phase transitions. In 2009 he received the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for groundbreaking work on time-reversal-violating effects in unconventional superconductors with magneto-optics (laudation)
In 1994 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1986 to 1990 , and in 1987 received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2015 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
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- ↑ Laudation Buckley Prize 2015 with biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kapitulnik, Aharon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli physicist and professor at Stanford University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |