Zahid Hasan inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Zahid Hasan, a 2021 Mustafa(Pbuh) Prize Laureate, who was recognized as an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD) in 2020 is going to be admitted during a ceremony in Los Angeles on October 23.
MSTF Media reports:
Zahid Hasan, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University and a laureate of the 2021 Mustafa
Prize in the field of Quantum Physics, was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
A formal ceremony which was delayed for two years due to COVID-19 will be held to admit members elected in 2020-22 in Los Angeles on October 23.
According to a news article published by AMACAD, using advanced spin-sensitive spectroscopic techniques, Hasan contributed to launching the field of Topological Insulators, thus theoretically and experimentally discovering many novel classes of topological matter.
“In 2015 Hasan observed the emergent Weyl fermions and novel topological Fermi arc surface states in topological semimetals,” the report went on.
It was this work that earned Hasan a Mustafa
Prize in 2021.
According to the report, “his experiments have been seminal in giving rise to the field of Topological Quantum Matter,” a field which is now “growing vigorously at the nexus of condensed matter physics, materials engineering, nano-science, device physics & quantum engineering, chemistry and relativistic quantum field theory.”
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
