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Keith Schwab
Keith Schwab is an experimental physicist and Caltech professor of applied physics working on quantum nanomechanics and superfluid helium-4 devices, including resonator cooling toward the quantum ground state.
Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing, born in 1943, is a German physicist who discovered the quantum Hall effect in 1980 and received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Leo P. Kouwenhoven (born 1963) is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor at TU Delft and QuTech, known for spin qubits and Majorana bound states.
Leonid Keldysh
Leonid Keldysh (Леонид Келдыш) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow, known for the Keldysh diagram technique, the Keldysh parameter, and the Franz–Keldysh effect.
Leroy Chang
Leroy Chang (张立纲, Zhang Ligang; 1936–2008) was a Chinese-born American condensed-matter physicist who spent three decades at IBM turning the semiconductor superlattice and resonant tunneling into working devices.
Loren N. Pfeiffer
Loren N. Pfeiffer is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, known for growing the world's purest gallium arsenide crystals.
Lu Jeu Sham
Lu Jeu Sham is a Hong Kong-born condensed matter theorist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, and one of the three founders of density functional theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Marc A. Kastner
Marc A. Kastner is a Canadian-born condensed matter physicist, Donner Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for pioneering the semiconductor single-electron transistor and its Kondo effect.
Mark Azbel
Mark Azbel, or Mark Yakovlevich Azbel (1932–2020), was a Soviet-born Israeli condensed-matter physicist known for the Azbel–Kaner cyclotron resonance and the Azbel–Hofstadter problem, and a leading refusenik who emigrated to Israel in 1977.
Mark William Keller
Mark William Keller is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who works in mesoscopic physics and quantum metrology and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2000.
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Massimiliano Di Ventra is a theoretical physicist, professor at UC San Diego since 2004, known for MemComputing, the ionic Coulomb blockade, and DNA sequencing by tunneling.
Moti Heiblum
Moti Heiblum is an Israeli experimental physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for shot-noise measurements of fractional quasiparticle charge in the quantum Hall regime.
Nadya Mason
Nadya Mason is an American experimental condensed matter physicist studying quantum materials, superconductivity, and nanoscale systems; she is dean of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.
Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read, born 1958, is a British-born American theoretical condensed matter physicist, the Henry Ford II Professor at Yale, known for the fractional quantum Hall effect and non-Abelian quasiparticles.
Paweł Hawrylak
Pawel Hawrylak is a Polish-Canadian theoretical condensed matter physicist known for the theory of quantum dots as artificial atoms, and a professor at the University of Ottawa.
Peter Sercel
Peter Sercel is a condensed matter theorist who trained at Caltech and taught at the University of Oregon from 1992 to 2002, known for modeling spin splitting in hybrid perovskites.
R. Thomas Weitz
Ralf Thomas Weitz is a solid-state physicist and full professor at the University of Göttingen since 2020, known for the quantum anomalous Hall effect in bilayer graphene.
Radii Gurzhi
Radii Mykolayovych Gurzhi (1930–2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist at Kharkiv whose 1963 prediction of the Gurzhi effect, where a clean conductor conducts better as it warms, founded electron hydrodynamics.
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is an American condensed matter physicist at Stanford who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1983 theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Robert G. Chambers
Robert G. Chambers, known as Bob Chambers, was a British experimental physicist who verified the Aharonov–Bohm effect in 1960 and won the Royal Society's Hughes Medal.
Rosario Fazio
Rosario Fazio is an Italian condensed matter physicist who heads the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section at ICTP in Trieste and studies quantum transport and many-body systems.
S. Das Sarma
Sankar Das Sarma is a condensed matter theorist at the University of Maryland known for topological quantum computation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Shahal Ilani
Shahal Ilani is an Israeli condensed matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the quantum twisting microscope reported in Nature in 2023.
Silvano De Franceschi
Silvano De Franceschi, born in Milan in 1970, is an Italian experimental physicist at CEA Grenoble known for Kondo-effect work in carbon nanotubes and pioneering hole spin qubits.
Thirumalai Venkatesan
Thirumalai Venkatesan is a physicist who pioneered pulsed laser deposition for high-temperature superconductor films in 1987 and is a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Tsampikos Kottos
Tsampikos Kottos is a physicist at Wesleyan University who works on wave transport and mathematical physics, known for PT-symmetric electronic circuits and a 2022 exceptional-point accelerometer in Nature.
Vitaly Podzorov
Vitaly Podzorov is a condensed matter physicist and professor at Rutgers University known for high-performing organic transistors, the first organic semiconductor Hall effect measurements, and perovskite research.
Vladimir J. Goldman
Vladimir J. Goldman is an American condensed matter experimental physicist at Stony Brook University who coauthored the 1995 Science paper measuring the fractionally charged quasiparticle of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Wei Pan
Wei Pan is a condensed-matter experimental physicist, a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories known for experiments on the fractional quantum Hall effect and topological states.
Yoseph Imry
Yoseph Imry (1939–2018) was an Israeli physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, called the primary founding father of mesoscopic physics and winner of the 2016 Wolf Prize in Physics.