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Andrea Cavalleri
Andrea Cavalleri, born 1969, is a physicist working on light-driven quantum materials, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.
Andrea Young
Andrea F. Young is an experimental condensed matter physicist and professor at UC Santa Barbara who co-invented van der Waals heterostructures and won the 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
Andrew J. Millis
Andrew J. Millis is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist, professor at Columbia University and co-director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics.
Andrey V. Chubukov
Andrey V. Chubukov (Андрей Вадимович Чубуков) is a condensed matter theorist at the University of Minnesota who received the 2018 John Bardeen Prize for his work on unconventional superconductivity.
Andrey Zheludev
Andrey Ivanovich Zheludev is a condensed matter physicist and professor at ETH Zurich who studies quantum magnetism by neutron scattering, and received a 2000 PECASE award.
Angel Rubio (Spanish physicist)
Angel Rubio is a Spanish theoretical physicist who directs the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg and pioneered first-principles excited-state methods.
Ángel Rubio Secades
Ángel Rubio Secades is a Spanish theoretical physicist who has directed the Theory Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg since 2014.
Anthony Leggett
Anthony Leggett, also known as Tony Leggett, was a British theoretical physicist who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of superfluid helium-3.
Antoine Georges
Antoine Georges, born in Paris in 1961, is a French theoretical condensed-matter physicist who co-invented dynamical mean-field theory and directs the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics.
Antonio Helio Castro Neto
Antonio Helio Castro Neto is a condensed matter theorist known for the theory of graphene, and Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore leading its Centre for Advanced 2D Materials.
Archibald Howie
Archibald "Archie" Howie, born 1934, is a British physicist who developed the Howie-Whelan equations for interpreting transmission electron microscope images of crystal defects, and later HAADF imaging; he headed the Cavendish Laboratory from 1989 to 1997.
Arie Hendrik Boerdijk
Arie Hendrik Boerdijk was a scientist who earned a Ph.D. at Delft in 1951 and described the tetrahedral helical packing now called the Boerdijk–Coxeter helix.
Arindam Ghosh (physicist)
Arindam Ghosh is an Indian condensed matter physicist, JRD Tata Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, known for graphene–MoS2 optoelectronics and winner of the Infosys Prize 2020.
Arne Brataas
Arne Brataas is a Norwegian theoretical physicist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, known for predicting spin–orbit coupling in curved carbon structures and directing NTNU's Center for Quantum Spintronics.
Aron Pinczuk
Aron Pinczuk (1939–2022) was an Argentine-born American condensed matter physicist who pioneered resonant inelastic light scattering, or electronic Raman scattering, revealing excitations of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Artem Mishchenko
Artem Mishchenko is a condensed matter physicist known for quantum phenomena in two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures, now at Google DeepMind in London.
Arthur F. Hebard
Arthur F. Hebard is an American condensed matter experimental physicist who discovered superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped C60, worked at Bell Laboratories from 1972 to 1996, and is a University of Florida professor.
Arthur Gossard
Arthur Gossard (1935–2022) was an American condensed matter physicist who spent 27 years at Bell Laboratories and then UC Santa Barbara, growing the first semiconductor superlattices and co-discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Arun Bansil
Arun Bansil is a University Distinguished Professor of physics at Northeastern University, where he has taught since 1976, known for work on the electronic structure of topological insulators and superconductors.
Ashvin Vishwanath
Ashvin Vishwanath is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and George Vasmer Leverett Professor at Harvard, known for predicting Weyl semimetals and winning the 2024 Buckley Prize.
Baek Sung-hee
Baek Sung-hee (백성희), also published as Sung Hee Baek, is a South Korean molecular and cellular geneticist and professor at Seoul National University known for her work on epigenetics and autophagy.
Baogen Shen
Baogen Shen (沈保根), born 1952 in Zhejiang, is a Chinese physicist and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician known for rare-earth permanent magnets and discovering the giant magnetocaloric La(Fe,Si)13 compounds.
Baowen Li
Baowen Li (李保文), born in Mile, Yunnan, China, is a physicist known as a pioneer of phononics, credited with inventing the thermal diode and a founder of thermal metamaterials research.
Barry Bradlyn
Barry Jason Bradlyn is a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for topological quantum chemistry and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Bart van Wees
Bart van Wees is a Dutch physicist and professor at the University of Groningen who described the first quantum point contacts and pioneered spin transport in graphene, winning the 2016 Spinoza Prize.
Bernd T. Matthias
Bernd T. Matthias (1918–1980) was a German-born solid-state physicist who formulated the Matthias rules and discovered more than 1,000 superconducting materials, more than any other scientist.
Bernhard Keimer
Bernhard Keimer is a German condensed matter physicist known for spectroscopic studies of high-temperature superconductors, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research since 1998.
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Bertram N. Brockhouse was a Canadian physicist at McMaster University awarded half of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing neutron spectroscopy, including the triple-axis spectrometer.
Bertrand Halperin
Bertrand Halperin, born in 1941, is an American theoretical physicist and Harvard professor known for the Halperin–Nelson hexatic melting theory and for quantum Hall edge states and fractional statistics.
Bertrand I. Halperin
Bertrand I. Halperin, also published as B. I. Halperin, is an American condensed matter physicist at Harvard known for KTHNY melting theory and quantum Hall theory.