Duncan Haldane

I'll admit it: a Nobel laureate in condensed matter physics isn't who I expected to be writing about here, and I find that genuinely refreshing. What strikes me about Duncan Haldane is the sheer density of recognition he's collected, from the 2016 Nobel shared with Thouless and Kosterlitz, to the ICTP Dirac Medal and Royal Society fellowship. That's a career spent on topological phases of matter, work most of us will never grasp but quietly benefit from. As a British-born physicist now anchored at Princeton, he's the kind of figure whose fame is earned in lecture halls rather than headlines, and I respect that lane completely.

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (born 14 September 1951) is a British physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.

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Name (English)

Duncan Haldane

Name (Japanese)

ダンカン・ホールデン

Reading

だんかん・ほーるでん

Born

September 14, 1951 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

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Agency

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Occupation

physicist / university teacher

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

University of Cambridge

Awards & achievements

• Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1993 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
• 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2012 ICTP Dirac Medal
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Spouse

Private

Children

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Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://phy.princeton.edu/people/duncan-haldane#:-:text=duncan%20haldane
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3

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• physicist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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