Nicholas Read

Nicholas Read
Born	November 22, 1958(1958-11-22)[1] London, United Kingdom
Fields	Condensed matter theory
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	Imperial College, London,[1] Cambridge University
Known for	Fermion model for quantum hall systems
Notable awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize

Nicholas Read is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.

Biography

Read was born in Britain in 1958 and did his undergraduate education at the Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at the Imperial College, London after which he moved to the United States.^[2] 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 has been ever since.^[3]

Read's early work concerns understanding properties of rare-earth "heavy-fermion" compounds.^[3] He developed a the theory of "composite electrons", 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"^[3]

Honours

• Shared the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
• Fellow of the American Physical Society^[2]

External links

• Department page

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Array of contemporary American physicists". American Physical Society. http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?readn. Retrieved 14 October 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Romanyshyn, Jonathan (December 7, 2001). "Physics professor wins Buckley Prize". Yale Daily News. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2001/dec/07/physics-professor-wins-buckley-prize/. Retrieved 14 October 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Nicholas%20Read&year=2002. Retrieved 14 October 2010. 

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Name	Read, Nicholas
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Date of birth	November 22, 1958
Place of birth	London, United Kingdom
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