Tin-Lun Ho

Tin-Lun Ho , named Jason Ho, a Chinese - American theoretical solid state physicist .

Ho graduated from the Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1972 and then went to the USA, where he studied from 1972 at the University of Minnesota and from 1973 at Cornell University , where he received his doctorate in 1977 under N. David Mermin . As a post-doctoral student , he was with Christopher Pethick at Nordita from 1978 to 1980 and at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1980 to 1982 . In 1983 he became an assistant professor, an associate professor in 1989 and a professor at Ohio State University in 1996 . In 2002 he received the rank of Distinguished Professor there .

In 1984 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1999 a Guggenheim Fellow . In 2000 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Among other things, Ho dealt with quantum liquids (for example superfluid helium 3, where he applied topological ideas early on), quasicrystals and the quantum Hall effect . Most recently he has been working on Bose-Einstein condensates and optical gratings , for whose production with fermions he proposed a cooling mechanism in 2009

In 2008 he received the Lars Onsager Prize for contributions to quantum liquids and dilute quantum gases, both multi-component and rapidly rotating, and for his leading role in uniting solid state physics and atomic physics in this research area .

Web links

• Homepage
• Onsager price for Ho

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ohio State University Research News 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ Ho, Qi Zhou Squeezing out the entropy of fermions in optical lattices , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, Volume 106, 2009, p. 6916
3. ↑ Laudation: For his contributions to quantum liquids and dilute quantum gases, both multi-component and rapidly rotating, and for his leadership in unifying condensed matter and atomic physics research in this area .