Physicist Allan MacDonald becomes first Canadian to win Kavli nanoscience prize
Canadian physicist Allan MacDonald has been awarded the Kavli Prize in nanoscience for his pioneering work in 'Twistronics.' He shares the honor with Eva Andrei and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for discovering how rotating layers of materials like graphene can create superconductivity.
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Allan MacDonald, a Canadian physicist based in the United States who is best known for helping to usher in the field of “Twistronics” has been named a winner of this year’s Kavli Prize in nanoscience.
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