Xue Qikun, Date of Birth

    

Xue Qikun

Chinese physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1963

Profession: physicist

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Xue Qikun

  • Xue Qikun (Chinese: ???; born 1963) is a Chinese physicist.
  • He is a professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing.
  • He has done much work in Condensed Matter Physics, especially on superconductors and topological insulators.
  • In 2013, Xue was the first to achieve the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), an unusual orderly motion of electrons in a conductor, in his laboratory at Tsinghua University.
  • Xue is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president for research of Tsinghua University, and director of State Key Lab of Quantum Physics.
  • In 2016 he was one of the first recipients of the new Chinese Future Science Award for experimental discovery of high-temperature superconductivity at material interfaces and the QAHE.
  • This award has been described as "China's Nobel Prize".

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