Bertrand Halperin

Bertrand Israel Halperin ( born December 6, 1941 in Brooklyn ) is an American physicist.

Life and work

Bertrand Halperin was born the son of Morris and Eva Halperin, born Teplitsky. In 1961, he earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where in 1963 he received his master. As a guest scientist, he was from 1964 to 1965 at Princeton University. In 1965 he received his doctorate ( Supervisor: John Hopfield ). Then he was to do research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1966 to 1976 at Bell Laboratories. Since 1976 he is a professor at Harvard University since 1992 as Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. From 1988 to 1991 he was Dean of the Faculty of Physics. Since 1994, he spent ten years scientific director of the Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Systems ( CIMS ).

Halperin works in the field of condensed matter and statistical physics. He is interested in two-dimensional electron systems at low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, so-called quantum Hall systems (→ Quantum Hall effect). He examined in 1978 with David R. Nelson two-dimensional melting processes (see Hexatische phase) and was able to make predictions, the later of Pindak et al. have been confirmed experimentally. Other research interests include: superconductivity, transport processes in inhomogeneous systems and nuclear magnetic resonance in porous media. Previously, he also worked on quantum antiferromagnets in one and two dimensions, properties of glasses at low temperatures and dynamic phenomena near a phase transition.

Halperin is married to Helena Stacy French since September 23, 1962 and has a son, Jeffery Arnold, and a daughter, Julia Stacy.

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Halperin has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals.

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