Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for superconductivity experiments

Aharon Kapitulnik
Stanford University

Citation:
“For seminal studies of time-reversal-symmetry breaking effects in unconventional superconductors using magneto optics”

Aharon Kapitulnik received his physics education at Tel-Aviv University, earning a B.Sc. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1983. Moving to U.C. Santa Barbara as a Weizmann Fellow, he then became an Assistant Professor in Residence in its Physics Department, before moving in 1985 to Stanford University where he has served up to the present. Kapitulnik is a member of the Applied Physics and Physics Departments and served as the chair of Applied Physics at Stanford, first from 1996 to 2000 and then from 2005 to present. Throughout his career, Kapitulnik was interested in the physics of strongly correlated, disordered, and low-dimensional electron systems, particularly superconductors. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1986-1990), and a Presidential Young Investigator (1987-1992). In 1994 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2009 a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selection Committee Chair: P. H. Kes