Английская Википедия:Catherine Kallin

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use list-defined references Catherine Kallin is a Canadian theoretical quantum condensed matter physicist whose research topics have included spin wave theory, the quantum Hall effect, frustrated antiferromagnets, chirality in superconductors, and high-temperature superconductivity. She is a professor emerita of physics and astronomy at McMaster University.Шаблон:R

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Education and career

Kallin is originally from Vancouver,Шаблон:R where she was an undergraduate at Langara CollegeШаблон:R and the University of British Columbia (UBC),Шаблон:R graduating from UBC in 1979.Шаблон:R She was turned off from physics in her high school education, but regained interest after taking a general-interest physics course at Langara.Шаблон:R

She completed her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1984.Шаблон:R Her dissertation, Some Dynamic Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces, was supervised by Bertrand Halperin.Шаблон:R After postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she became an assistant professor at McMaster University in 1986.Шаблон:R

Recognition

In 1994, Kallin was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for contributions to the understanding of correlations between electrons in low-dimensional systems".Шаблон:R

Kallin was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1987.Шаблон:R She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1996,Шаблон:R and was awarded the 1996 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.Шаблон:R Kallin was given a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Theory in 2003, renewed in 2010.Шаблон:R She won a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2013,Шаблон:R and a Simons Fellowship in 2016, the only Canadian winner in that year.Шаблон:R

Langara College gave her their outstanding alumni award in 2016.Шаблон:R

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