Jon Magne Leinaas
Jon Magne Leinaas(born 11 October 1946) is aNorwegiantheoreticalphysicist.
He was born inOslo.He took thecand.real.at theUniversity of Osloin 1970 and thedr.philos.degree at the same institution in 1980. He was a fellow atNordita,and atCERN,and held a faculty position at theUniversity of Stavanger,before he was appointed as a professor oftheoretical physicsat theUniversity of Osloin 1989.[1]He is a fellow of theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[2]and theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Together withJan Myrheimhe discovered that in one and two spatial dimensions, there is a possibility of having fractional quantum statistics.[3]This is of particular importance in two dimensions where fractional statistics particles, usually referred to asanyons,[1]play an important role in the theory of thefractional quantum Hall effect.The duo shared the Fridtjof Nansen Excellent Research Award in Science in 1993.
He resides atGjettum,a suburb of Oslo.
References[edit]
- ^ab"Jon Magne Leinaas".Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian).Retrieved4 May2014.
- ^"Gruppe 2: Fysikk, astronomi, geofysikk"(in Norwegian).Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Retrieved4 May2014.
- ^Leinaas, J. M.; Myrheim, J. (January 1977). "On the theory of identical particles".Il Nuovo Cimento B.37(1): 1–23.Bibcode:1977NCimB..37....1L.doi:10.1007/BF02727953.ISSN1826-9877.S2CID117277704.
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