Background
Halperin was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up in the Crown Heights neighborhood. His mother was Eva Teplitzky Halperin and his father Morris Halperin. His mother was a college administrator and his father a customs inspector.
Halperin was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up in the Crown Heights neighborhood. His mother was Eva Teplitzky Halperin and his father Morris Halperin. His mother was a college administrator and his father a customs inspector.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1961; A.M., University of California, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, 1965; visiting graduate student, Princeton University, 1964-1965.
He attended Harvard University (class of 1961), and did his graduate work at Berkeley with John Jay Hopfield (Doctor of Philosophy 1965). In the 1970s, he, together with David R. Nelson, worked out a theory of two-dimensional melting, predicting the hexatic phase before it was experimentally observed by Pindak et al. In the 1980s, he made contributions to the theory of the Integral and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.
His recent interests lie in the area of strongly interacting low-dimensional electron systems
In 2001, he was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize. In 2003, he and Anthony J. Leggett were awarded the Wolf Prize in physics.
Fellow American Physical Society (Oliver Buckley prize 1982), American Academy Arts andScis. Member NAS, American Philosophical Society.
Married Helena Stacy French, September 23, 1962. Children: Jeffery Arnold, Julia Stacy.