复旦-中植科学奖授予拓扑领域科学家 - 2020年12月15日

Three renowned physicists have been honored with this year’s Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award.
Professor Michael Berry of the University of Bristol, Professor Charles Kane of the University of Pennsylvania and academician Xue Qikun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences received the honor at a ceremony in Shanghai on Sunday.
Berry is known for introducing the geometric phase in basic quantum mechanics. Widely known as the Berry phase, it serves as a basic concept to understand a number of important systems in condensed matter physics such as the quantum Hall effect..