Shoucheng Zhang

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Residence Stanford, California Fields Physics Role Professor		Name Shoucheng Zhang Nationality American Children Brian Zhang

Born February 15, 1963 (age 61) Shanghai, China ( 1963-02-15 ) Institutions Stanford UniversityTsinghua University Alma mater Fudan UniversityFree University of BerlinState University of New York at Stony Brook (PhD) Doctoral advisor Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Known for Quantum spin Hall effectTopological insulatorField theory of quantum Hall effectSO(5) theory of high temperature superconductivity Books Molekulare Mechanismen Des Begomovirustransports: Molecular Mechanisms of Begomovirus Movement Education Stony Brook University (1987), Free University of Berlin (1983), Fudan University Awards Physics Frontiers Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Laurens W Molenkamp, Charles L Kane, Yi Cui, David Goldhaber‑Gordon, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

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Shoucheng Zhang (Chinese: 张首晟; born 1963) 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, the Oliver Buckley prize in 2012, the Dirac Medal and Prize in 2012, the Physics Frontiers Prize in 2013, the “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2015. He is identified as one of the top candidates for the Nobel Prize by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He has been elected as the member of the National Academy of Science in 2015.