Nicholas Read (Henry Ford II Professor of Physics) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Nicholas Read (Henry Ford II Professor of Physics) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nicholas Read, the Henry Ford II Professor of Physics, and professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics. Read is a world expert in theoretical quantum physics who has predicted the existence of several new states of matter, including one which has been verified experimentally. His work has helped lay the foundations for a possible new type of powerful computer based on quantum principles.