Bertrand I. Halperin
Department of Physics
Harvard University
17 Oxford Street
Cambridge , MA 02138
Tel.: (617) 495–4294, Fax: (617) 496–2545
E-mail: halperin@physics.harvard.edu
Education
- Ph.D. 1965, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. 1963, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- A.B. 1961, Physics, Harvard University
Positions Held
- 2004-present: Senior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows
- 1992–present: Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, Harvard University
- 1976–present: Professor of Physics, Harvard University
- 1999–2004: Scientific Director, Harvard Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures
- 1988–1991 Chairman of the Harvard Physics Department
- 1969–1970 Lecturer, Harvard University (on leave from Bell Laboratories)
- 1966–1976 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
- 1965–1966 National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 1996–1997 Sabbatical Year: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Raman Professor); Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; Lucent Technologies; and Lorentz Institute, Leiden (Lorentz Professor)
- 1991–1992 Sabbatical Year at: Institute for Solid State Physics, Tokyo; Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara; and AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill
- 1982–1983 Sabbatical Year at: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Saclay; Collège de France; and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
Organizations and Awards
- Lars Onsager Medal and Lecture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2009
- Dannie Heineman Prize of the Göttingen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007
- Teaching Award, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Chapter, 2004
- Wolf Prize in Physics, 2003
- Lars Onsager Prize, American Physical Society, 2001
- Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, American Physical Society, 1982
- Fellow: American Physical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member: National Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical Society