Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read (born November 22, 1958 in London ) is a British-American theoretical physicist who deals with quantum mechanical many-particle theory in solid-state physics.
Read studied physics at Cambridge University (Bachelor's degree in 1980, Certificate of Advanced Study 1981) and received a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College London in 1986 . He was a post-doctoral student at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1988 he became Assistant Professor and in 1995 Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University .
He dealt with strongly interacting many-body fermion systems such as heavy fermion systems, high-temperature superconductors, quantum mechanical theory of antiferromagnets and the quantum Hall effect (fractional QHE, half-filled landing levels). He applied methods from gauge field theories (1 / N development, conformal field theories, nonlinear sigma models) and developed (like Jainendra K. Jain and Robert Willett , who also received the Buckley Prize for this) models of composite fermions, especially for the QHE.
In 2002 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and in 2015 the Dirac Medal (ICTP) . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2013 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017 as well as a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Royal Society since 2020 . In 1991 he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award . From 1989 to 1993 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Read, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |