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Shoucheng Zhang

Date of Birth 15-February-1963
Place of Birth Shanghai
(China)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Shou-Cheng Zhang, S C Zhang
Profession Professor
Shoucheng Zhang is the JG Jackson and CJ Wood professor of physics at Stanford University. He is a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, quantum Hall effect and high temperature superconductivity. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Guggenheim fellowship in 2007, the Alexander von Humboldt research prize in 2009, the Europhysics prize in 2010 and the Oliver Buckley prize in 2012, and the Dirac Medal and Prize in 2012 for his theoretical prediction of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators.

Awards by Shoucheng Zhang

Check all the awards nominated and won by Shoucheng Zhang.

2013


Physics Frontiers Prize
(For the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of topological insulators.)