Gwendal Fève receives the American Physical Society's 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize
Gwendal Fève is a professor at Sorbonne University and an experimental physicist in the Mesoscopic Physics group at the ENS Physics Laboratory (LPENS – Sorbonne University/ENS-PSL/CNRS/Université Paris Cité). He has just been awarded the prestigious 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize by the American Physical Society.
A laureate of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2023, the Prix Ancel in 2020 and the Prix Madame Mergier-Bourdeix in 2024, this most recent distinction recognises Gwendal Fève’s “groundbreaking experiments that have observed anyonic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect, thus establishing the significance of topological excitations in two-dimensions”.
The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize recognises and encourages outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics. The annual prize is awarded by the American Physical Society (APS), a non-profit membership organisation which works to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive and global community dedicated to science and society. Founded over 125 years ago, APS represents 50,000 members today, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and around the world.
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Gwendal Fève
Academic Researcher in Physics Awarded an ERC Grant
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