Education
He completed a Bachelor of Surgery in physics at the University of Chicago in 1985 and his Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
physicist university professor
He completed a Bachelor of Surgery in physics at the University of Chicago in 1985 and his Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
Kane is notable for theoretically predicting the quantum spin Hall effect and what would later be known as 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 Molenkamp and Shoucheng Zhang for their work on topological insulators.
National Academy of Sciences. American Physical Society.