Two Penn Physicists Awarded 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal

University of Pennsylvania physicists Charles Kane and Eugene Mele have been chosen as 2015 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, one of the world's oldest science and technology awards. They will be honored at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on April 23, 2015. 

Charles Kane, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Chair Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Eugene Mele, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, are among the eight scientists who will be awarded 2015 Franklin Medals. Kane and Mele are recognized for their creation of topological insulators, a new class of materials that have a number of useful applications ranging from low power electronics to creating a topological quantum computer.

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