查尔斯·凯恩1963—

生平

1985年他完成了芝加哥大学物理学学士学位，1989年获麻省理工学院物理学博士学位。在加入宾夕法尼亚大学之前，他是IBM沃森研究中心做了两年博士后研究，与他的导师Matthew P. A. Fisher一起工作。1997年成为宾夕法尼亚大学物理及天文学系助理教授，2006年成为教授。

凯恩值得注意的是在理论上预测到量子自旋霍尔效应以及后来被称为拓扑绝缘体的现象。

2010年获欧洲物理学奖。他因在二维和三维拓扑绝缘体方面的开创性工作与张首晟和邓肯·霍尔丹（Duncan Haldane）的开创性研究而共同获得了2012年狄拉克奖。2014年被选为美国国家科学院院士，2015年获富兰克林奖章。凯恩的研究关注介观物理学、半导体纳米结构、强关联电子系。

Charles L. Kane (Charles Lewis Kane; born January 12, 1963) is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a B.S. in physics at the University of Chicago in 1985 and his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania he was a postdoctoral associate at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center working with his mentor Matthew P. A. Fisher, among others.

Kane is notable for theoretically predicting the quantum spin Hall effect (originally in graphene) and what would later be known as topological insulators.

He received the 2012 Dirac Prize, along with Shoucheng Zhang and Duncan Haldane, for their groundbreaking work on two- and three-dimensional topological insulators. In the same year he was also chosen for the inaugural class of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences Simons Investigators. He also shared one of the 2013 Physics Frontiers prizes with Laurens W. Molenkamp and Shoucheng Zhang for their work on topological insulators. In 2018, he shared the Frontiers of Knowledge Award with Eugene J. Mele. In 2019, was recognized with Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with fellow University of Pennsylvania professor Eugene Mele. In 2025, he received the Lorentz Medal, again for work on topological insulators.