Eugene J. Mele
Eugene John "Gene" Mele is a professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he researches quantum electric phenomena in condensed matter.[2] Mele graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1972 and obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978.Together with Charles Kane, he predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in graphene which later was called time-reversal invariant topological insulator for the corresponding two dimensional structures.[4] Mele and Kane were awarded the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.They had previously received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 2015, with Shoucheng Zhang,[6] and the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize in 2010 with Zhang, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens Molenkamp.