Gregory S. Boebinger

Boebinger is a world leader in high magnetic field research on quantum materials, a field that includes semiconductors, graphene, topological insulators, and high-temperature superconductors (HTS). He was the first to utilize ultra-low temperatures at the highest-available magnetic fields, required for his thesis research on the fractional quantum Hall effect. In 1995, he set a new world record for magnetic fields and used his unique pulsed-field facility to discover evidence of a quantum phase transition directly underlying the superconducting phase in HTS, which remains his major research direction. He is known for finding and elucidating new quantum states.