Duncan Holdan

Duncan M Haldane, a 2016 Nobel laureate in physics, is currently a professor of physics at Princeton University in the United States and has been elected as a member of the Royal Society in the UK, as well as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences. At the same time, he is also a researcher at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the British Institute of Physics. He shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Thorless and Michael Kosterlitz. Duncan Haldane won the Nobel Prize for his research on topological phase matter theory, which includes topological quantum states of one-dimensional magnetic atomic chain systems and theoretical predictions of magnetic topological insulators. His research on the topological quantum states of dimensional magnetic atomic chain systems was truly unexpected and initially controversial. Due to his groundbreaking contributions in this field, Duncan Haldane was awarded the 1993 American Physical Society Oliver Buckley Award. He also proposed a theoretical prediction of magnetic topological insulators, which is of great significance for the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect. In 2013, Tsinghua University first observed the quantum anomalous Hall effect in an experiment. With this research, he, along with Charles Kane and Zhang Shousheng, won the 2012 Dirac Medal from the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Leicester. Duncan Holdan has opened up new directions and provided new ideas for further studying quantum effects in condensed matter physics systems. In recent years, topological quantum matter has become a very active experimental field, and many people believe that it can provide a platform for quantum computing. He also pioneered the field of topological photonics. Currently, he is dedicated to studying quantum geometry in fractional quantum Hall effect. Under the guidance of Philip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics in 1977, Holdane obtained a doctoral degree in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Princeton University, he also worked at the Laue Langevin Institute in Grenoble, University of Southern California, Bell Laboratories, and the University of California, San Diego. Holdan was born in London, England in 1951 and has mixed Scottish and Slovenian ancestry. When he was young, he entered S \u00e3 o Paulo High School to study. Haldane greatly praised a passionate teacher at S \u00e3 o Paulo High School, stating that it was this teacher who awakened his interest in physics in his final academic year. After graduating from St. Paul's High School, Holdane was admitted to the Christian College of Cambridge University. Haldane married a French wife and had two children, both of whom are now adults. Since 1990, Haldane has been living in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Duncan Haldane and the renowned biologist JBS Haldane, apart from having three initials, actually have no connection at all.