Laurens W. Molenkamp

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
Laurens W. Molenkamp is an experimental <a href="/facts/Condensed_matter/EBVI5nmL">condensed matter</a> <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a>. He received his Ph.D. in <a href="/facts/Physical_chemistry/WqwnJjRM">physical chemistry</a> from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Groningen/j7AbDh6z">University of Groningen</a>, and spent several years first with Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven and then as Associate Professor at the RWTH in Aachen. He came to the <a href="/facts/University_of_W%C3%BCrzburg/LeK2xKVW">University of Würzburg</a> in 1999 and is now the Chair of Experimental Physics III and leads the II-VI MBE (<a href="/facts/Molecular_beam_epitaxy/zIhe0lMv">molecular beam epitaxy</a>) unit. His research interests include quantum transport in nanostructures, semiconductor spintronics, and optical spectroscopy of semiconductors. He was a co-recipient of the <a href="/facts/American_Physical_Society/DCkkU6dD">American Physical Society</a> 2012 <a href="/facts/Oliver_E._Buckley_Condensed_Matter_Prize/BsvcrbjT">Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> for his experimental observation of the <a href="/facts/Quantum_spin_Hall_effect/26hdSS9L">quantum spin Hall effect</a>, opening up the field of <a href="/facts/Topological_insulators/pbrbxG9X">topological insulators</a>. Since 2012, he has been the Editor<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a> of the physics journal <a href="/facts/Physical_Review_B/w0LJ2rfS">Physical Review B</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a> He was a 2013 Physics Frontiers Prize laureate (shortlisted for the <a href="/facts/Fundamental_Physics_Prize/gRM2akvs">Fundamental Physics Prize</a>). Thomson Reuters included him on their annual prediction shortlist <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> for the 2014 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize/3z1Y3oFL">Nobel Prize</a> for Physics for his experimental research, with <a href="/facts/Charles_L._Kane/K1xS9Pr5">Charles L. Kane</a> and <a href="/facts/Shoucheng_Zhang/8Kt1fnEq">Shoucheng Zhang</a>, on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators.

<h2 id="honors">Honors</h2>
<ul><li>Fellow, <a href="/facts/American_Physical_Society/DCkkU6dD">American Physical Society</a></li>
<li>2010 <a href="/facts/Europhysics_Prize/VbsxAt0t">Europhysics Prize</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a></li>
<li>2012 <a href="/facts/Oliver_E._Buckley_Condensed_Matter_Prize/BsvcrbjT">Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a></li>
<li>2013 Physics Frontiers Prize laureate (shortlisted for the <a href="/facts/Fundamental_Physics_Prize/gRM2akvs">Fundamental Physics Prize</a>)</li>
<li>2013 Foreign membership of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences/3kMPbFAD">Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a></li>
<li>2014 <a href="/facts/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz_Prize/uPfm9T4q">Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a></li>
<li>2017 <a href="/facts/Stern-Gerlach_Medal/HUhb93SM">Stern-Gerlach Medal</a></li>
<li>2017 <a href="/facts/King_Faisal_International_Prize/P2Vz8P4k">King Faisal International Prize</a></li>
<li>2018 <a href="/facts/Bavarian_Maximilian_Order_for_Science_and_Art/RT35VmnI">Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/EP3/">Experimental Physics 3 Department, University of Würzburg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://prb.aps.org">Home Page</a> of <a href="/facts/Physical_Review_B/w0LJ2rfS">Physical Review B</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">"Curriculum Vitae, Laurens W. Molenkamp" (PDF). Universität Würzburg. 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018. <a href="https://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/11010300/2019/Short_CV_Molenkamp.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/11010300/2019/Short_CV_Molenkamp.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">[1] "Topological quintet bags Europhysics prize", Physics World, 21 June 2010 <a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/42967" target="_blank">http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/42967</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">[2] Official Page for Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize <a href="http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/buckley.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/buckley.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">[3] "Editorial: Laurens Molenkamp on Assuming the Editorship of Physical Review B", Phys. Rev. B 85, 180001 (2012), Physical Review B, 8 May 2012 <a href="http://prb.aps.org/edannounce/PhysRevB.85.180001" target="_blank">http://prb.aps.org/edannounce/PhysRevB.85.180001</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">[4] Official APS announcement, APS News, March 2012 <a href="http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201203/physrevb.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201203/physrevb.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">[5] About Physical Review B <a href="http://prb.aps.org/about" target="_blank">http://prb.aps.org/about</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">[6] Archived 29 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine Thomson Reuters Nobel Laureates Prediction <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/092014/2014-nobel-laureates-predictions" target="_blank">http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/092014/2014-nobel-laureates-predictions</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">[1] "Topological quintet bags Europhysics prize", Physics World, 21 June 2010 <a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/42967" target="_blank">http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/42967</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">[2] Official Page for Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize <a href="http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/buckley.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/buckley.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">"Laurens Molenkamp". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160213195848/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/14308" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160213195848/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/14308</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">"Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2014". www.dfg.de (in German). Retrieved 15 December 2021. <a href="https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2014/index.jsp" target="_blank">https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2014/index.jsp</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">"Laurens Molenkamp Wins Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize". Physical Review Journals. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2021. <a href="https://journals.aps.org/edannounce/laurens-molenkamp-wins-gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-prize" target="_blank">https://journals.aps.org/edannounce/laurens-molenkamp-wins-gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">"Terminhinweis: Ministerpräsident Dr. Markus Söder verleiht Bayerischen Maximiliansorden" (Press release) (in German). Munich: Bayerische Staatsregierung. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018. <a href="http://www.bayern.de/112019-2/" target="_blank">http://www.bayern.de/112019-2/</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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