Prof. Nicholas Read wins Buckley Prize

The American Physical Society has announced that the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Prize has been awarded to Prof. Nicholas Read, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University, to Prof. Jainendra Jain of Pennsylvania State University and to Dr. Robert Willett of Bell Laboratories. 

The Buckley Prize recognized the importance of their research in measuring and explaining certain novel states of matter that are produced in semiconducting heterostructures at low temperature and high magnetic field.l

Prof. Read and Dr. Jain were recognized for their theoretical work and Dr. Willett for his experimental work.