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Allan H. MacDonald

Canadian-American physicist · Canada · Scientists · Born 1951 · age 74

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Allan H. MacDonald is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are centered on the electronic properties of electrons in metals and semiconductors.

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2020Wolf Prize in PhysicsAward2012Ernst Mach MedalAward2007Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeAward1951Born1 December 1951

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Wolf Prize in Physics2020
Ernst Mach Medal2012
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize2007
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Allan H. MacDonald is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are centered on the electronic properties of electrons in metals and semiconductors. He is well known for his work on correlated many-electron states in low-dimensional systems. In 2020, he became one of the laureates of the Wolf Prize in Physics, for predicting the magic angle that turns twisted bilayer graphene into a superconductor.

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Scientist
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Born 1951 · age 74

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