Eugene J.
Mele
Eugene John "Gene" Mele is a professor of physics
at the University of Pennsylvania, where he researches Eugene John Mele
quantum electric phenomena in condensed matter.[2] Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citizenship United States
Alma mater St. Joseph’s University (B.S.,
Biography 1972)
Massachusetts Institute of
Mele graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1972
Technology (Ph.D, 1978)
and obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. After Known for quantum spin Hall effect
working as a research assistant at the Xerox Research Awards Ira Abrams Award for
Center in Webster, New York, he was appointed Distinguished Teaching (1998)
assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Franklin Medal (2015)
1981 and promoted to full professor in 1989. Since Fontiers of Knowledge Award
2014 he has also been visiting faculty at (2018)
Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Breakthrough Prize in
Fundamental Physics (2019)
John Scott Medal (2019)[1]
Research Scientific career
Fields Condensed Matter Physics
Together with Charles Kane, he predicted the quantum
spin Hall effect in graphene which later was called Institutions Massachusetts Institute of
time-reversal invariant topological insulator for the Technology
corresponding two dimensional structures.[3] The Xerox Webster Research
existence of quantum spin Hall effect has since been Center
experimentally verified in HgTe quantum wells, and University of Pennsylvania
the prospect of applications for these old materials Doctoral Dina Zhabinskaya
(predicted by others) has stimulated new research students Paul Michalski
interest.[4] Jesse Kinder
Ahmed Maarouf
Michael V. Pykhtin
Honours and awards Chengyu Wei
Suklyun Hong
Mele and Kane were awarded the 2019 Breakthrough Maneesh Deshpande
Prize in Fundamental Physics.[5] and the 2018 BBVA C. Stephen Hellberg
Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Myung Ho Kang
Sciences. They had previously received the Benjamin Han-Yong. Choi
Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 2015, with Oscar L. Alerhand
Shoucheng Zhang,[6] and the European Physical Geoffrey W. Hayden
Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize David P. DiVincenzo
in 2010 with Zhang, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens Molenkamp.[7] He was elected a fellow of the
American Physical Society in 2001.[8] He was elected to The National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Further reading
Kane, Charles L.; Moore, Joel E. (2011). "Topological Insulators" (http://physics.gmu.edu/~p
nikolic/articles/Topological%20insulators%20(Physics%20World,%20February%202011).pd
f) (PDF). Physics World. 24 (2): 32. Bibcode:2011PhyW...24b..32K (https://ui.adsabs.harvar
d.edu/abs/2011PhyW...24b..32K). doi:10.1088/2058-7058/24/02/36 (https://doi.org/10.108
8%2F2058-7058%2F24%2F02%2F36). Retrieved 22 October 2018.
Hasan, M. Zahid; Kane, Charles L. (2010). "Topological Insulator". Reviews of Modern
Physics. 82 (4): 3045–3067. arXiv:1002.3895. Bibcode:2010RvMP...82.3045H.
doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.82.3045
References
1. "Charles Kane, Eugene Mele: John Scott Award" (https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/charle
s-kane-eugene-mele-john-scott-award). The University of Pennsylvania Almanac. Retrieved
11 January 2022.
2. "Eugene Mele" (https://www.physics.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/eugene-mele).
www.physics.upenn.edu. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
3. Kane, C.L.; Mele, E.J. (25 November 2005). "Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene".
Physical Review Letters. 95 (22): 226081. arXiv:cond-mat/0411737 (https://arxiv.org/abs/con
d-mat/0411737). Bibcode:2005PhRvL..95v6801K (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005P
hRvL..95v6801K). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.226801 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRe
vLett.95.226801). PMID 16384250 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16384250).
S2CID 6080059 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6080059).
4. Kane & Moore (2011).
5. "Breakthrough Prize – Winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences,
Fundamental Physics and Mathematics Announced" (https://breakthroughprize.org/News/4
7). Breakthrough Prize. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
6. "Eugene J. Mele" (https://www.fi.edu/laureates/eugene-j-mele). The Franklin Institute. 27
October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
7. "EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize - Award recipients" (http://c.ymcdn.com/
sites/www.eps.org/resource/collection/E5F070A4-808E-4FD3-9217-06F321ED3CE1/EPS_E
urophysics_Recipients.pdf) (PDF). European Physical Society. 28 September 2017.
Retrieved 20 October 2018.
8. "APS Fellow archive" (https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initi
al=&year=2001&unit_id=&institution=). APS. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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