Nicholas Read
{{Short description|American physicist (born 1958)}}
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| name = Nicholas Read
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|FRS|size=100}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=y|1958|11|22}}
| birth_place = London, England
| fields = Condensed matter theory
| workplaces = Yale University
| alma_mater = Imperial College London
Cambridge University
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| known_for = Composite fermion model for quantum Hall systems
| awards = Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2002)
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Nicholas Read {{post-nominals|FRS}} (born 1958) is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.
Biography
Read was born in London, England on November 22, 1958{{cite web|title=Array of contemporary American physicists|url=http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?readn|publisher=American Physical Society|accessdate=14 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005060136/http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?readn|archive-date=5 October 2012|url-status=dead}} and did his undergraduate education at Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London, after which he moved to the United States.{{cite news|last=Romanyshyn|first=Jonathan|title=Physics professor wins Buckley Prize|url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2001/dec/07/physics-professor-wins-buckley-prize/|accessdate=14 October 2010|newspaper=Yale Daily News|date=December 7, 2001|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921233416/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2001/dec/07/physics-professor-wins-buckley-prize/|archivedate=21 September 2012}} Read worked as a post-doctoral researcher, first at Brown University, and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Yale University as an assistant professor in 1988, where he is Henry Ford II Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics.{{cite web|title=2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Nicholas%20Read&year=2002|publisher=American Physical Society|accessdate=14 October 2010}}
Read's early work concerns understanding properties of rare-earth "heavy-fermion" compounds. Along with Greg Moore, he developed the theory of non-Abelian braiding statistics in quantum Hall systems. He developed a theory of composite fermions, which can be used to explain properties of free electron gas at high magnetic fields, in quantum Hall liquids and half-filled Landau levels. Read was awarded the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize together with Jainendra Jain and Robert Willet "For theoretical and experimental work establishing the composite fermion model for the half-filled Landau level and other quantized Hall systems".
Honours
- Shared the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Shared the 2015 Dirac Medal of ICTP{{Cite web|url=http://gonitsora.com/2015-dirac-medallists-announced/|title = 2015 Dirac Medallists announced|date = 9 August 2015}}
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2020{{cite web |title=Biography at Royal Society|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/Nicholas-Read-25389/}}
References
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External links
- [http://physics.yale.edu/people/nicholas-read Department page]
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