Eugene J. Mele

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Eugene John "Gene" Mele (born October 16, 1950 ) is an American theoretical solid-state physicist at the University of Pennsylvania .

Life

Together with Charles Kane , he predicted the quantum spin Hall effect and coined the term topological insulator for corresponding structures . He also worked on carbon nanotubes and soliton excitations in polymers.

Mele earned a BA from Saint Joseph's University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. in physics . He then worked as a research assistant at the Xerox Webster Research Center before receiving a first professorship (Assistant Professor) at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 . In 1983 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1985 he became an associate professor and in 1989 he was given a full professorship. Since 2014 he has also been a visiting professor at Loughborough University ( United Kingdom ).

Mele is married.

Awards

Mele has been a fellow of the American Physical Society since 2001 . In 2010 he received the CMD Europhysics Prize together with Hartmut Buhmann , Charles Kane , Laurens W. Molenkamp and Shoucheng Zhang and in 2015 the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute together with Charles Kane and Shoucheng Zhan . In 2018 Mele and Kane received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award .

Together with Charles Kane, he was awarded the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics . Also in 2019, Mele was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • L. Fu, CL Kane, EJ Mele: Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions. Physical Review Letters 98, 106803 (2007)
  • CL Kane, EJ Mele: Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene. Physical Review Letters 95, 226801 (2005)
  • CL Kane, EJ Mele: Z2 Topological Order and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect. Physical Review Letters 95, 146802 (2005)
  • EJ Mele, P. Kral: Electric Polarization of Heteropolar Nanotubes as a Geometric Phase. Physical Review Letters 88, 056803 (2002)
  • DJ Hornbaker, SJ Kahng, S. Misra, BW Smith, AT Johnson, EJ Mele, DE Luzzi, A. Yazdani: Mapping the One-Dimensional Electronic States of Nanotube Peapod Structures. Science 295, 828-831 (2002) (cover story)
  • EJ Mele: Screening of a Point Charge by and Anisotropic Medium: Anamorphoses in the Method of Images. American Journal of Physics 69, 557-562 (2001)
  • CL Kane, EJ Mele: Size, Shape and Low Energy Electronic Structure of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Physical Review Letters 78, 1932 (1997)
  • DP DiVincenzo, EJ Mele: Self Consistent Effective Mass Theory for Intralayer Screening in Graphite Intercalation Compounds. Physical Review B 29, 1685 (1984)
  • MJ Rice, EJ Mele: Elementary Excitations of a Linearly Conjugated Diatomic Polymer. Physical Review Letters 49, 1455 (1982)
  • EJ Mele, MJ Rice: Vibrational Excitations of Solitons in Polyacetylene. Physical Review Letters 45, 926 (1980); 47, 1492 (1981)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ A b The New York Times Company: Hedy Cerwinka and Gene Mele. In: nytimes.com. September 11, 2005, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize Award recipients (PDF, 327 kB); Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Eugene J. Mele. In: fi.edu. August 26, 2015, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Breakthrough Prize - Winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics Announced . Article dated October 17, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mele, Eugene J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mele, Eugene; Mele, Eugene John; Mele, Gene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical solid-state physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1950