Aharon Kapitulnik

Aharon Kapitulnik
אהרון קפיטולניק
Born1953 (age 7172)
NationalityIsrael, United States
Alma materTel Aviv University
Known forHigh Temperature Superconductivity
Quantum Phase Transitions
AwardsHeike Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize (2009)
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental physics
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorGuy Deutscher
Doctoral students

Aharon Kapitulnik (Hebrew: אהרון קפיטולניק; born 1953) is an Israeli-American experimental condensed matter physicist working at Stanford University. He is known primarily for his work on strongly correlated electron systems, low dimensional electronic systems, unconventional superconductors, topological superconductors, superconductivity and magnetism, transport in bad metals and precision measurements.