1. Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane was born on 14 September 1951 and is a British-born physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University.
12 Facts About Duncan Haldane
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Duncan Haldane is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J Thouless and J Michael Kosterlitz.
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Duncan Haldane was then appointed as an associate professor of physics in 1981 and later a professor of physics in 1986.
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In July 1986, Duncan Haldane joined the department of physics at University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, where he remained until February 1992.
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In 1990, Duncan Haldane was appointed as a professor of physics in the department of physics at Princeton University, where he remains to this day.
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In 1999, Duncan Haldane was named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.
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Duncan Haldane is known for a wide variety of fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics including the theory of Luttinger liquids, the theory of one-dimensional spin chains, the theory of fractional quantum hall effect, exclusion statistics, entanglement spectra and much more.
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Duncan Haldane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992; a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics ; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Duncan Haldane was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
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Duncan Haldane was awarded the Oliver E Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society ; Alfred P Sloan Foundation Research Fellow ; Lorentz Chair, Dirac Medal ; Doctor Honoris Causae of the Universite de Cergy-Pontoise ; Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecturer ; Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Duncan Haldane is a British and Slovenian citizen and United States permanent resident.
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Duncan Haldane received Slovenian citizenship at a ceremony at the Slovenian Embassy in Washington, DC on March 22,2019.