Bertrand Halperin

Bert Halperin
Born	(1941-12-06) December 6, 1941 (age 82) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for	Hexatic phase Quantum Hall effect KTHNY theory
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1982) Lars Onsager Prize (2001) Wolf Prize in Physics (2003)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	John J. Hopfield
Doctoral students	Catherine Kallin

Bertrand I. Halperin (born December 6, 1941) is an American physicist, former holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at the physics department of Harvard University.^[1] In 2006, he received the Wolf Prize in Physics for his various contribution to condensed matter physics, including work on KTHNY theory for two-dimensional melting.