Duncan Haldane

Full Name-

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane

Born-

14 September 1951

Famous For-

1. With David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz, Haldane shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
2. Haldane pseudopotentials in the Fractional quantum Hall effect
3. 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.

Awards-

1. Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1993)
2. Fellow of the Royal Society(1996)[3]
3. Dirac Medal (2012)
4. Nobel Prize in Physics (2016)